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Data from The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995, [9] Russia's Ekranoplans: The Caspian Sea Monster and other WiG Craft [1] General characteristics. Crew: 5; Capacity: 50 people; Length: 92.00 m (301 ft 10 in) Wingspan: 37.60 m (123 ft 4 in) * Tail stabilizer span: 37 m (121 ft 5 in) Height: 21.80 m (71 ft 6 in)
The only model of this class ever built to completion, the MD-160, entered service with the Soviet Navy Caspian Flotilla in 1987. It was retired in the late 1990s and sat unused at a Caspian Sea naval base in Kaspiysk until 2020. [3] [9] [10] The second Lun-class ekranoplan was partially built in the late 1980s.
Height Width Weight Year introduced Year discontinued ... Caspian Sea Monster: Ekranoplan: 92 m (301 ft 10 in) 37.6 m (123 ft 4 in) 240 t (529,000 lb)
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Caspian Sea Monster: 16 Oct 1966: Ekranoplan: 1: 100.61 yards (92.00 meters) 41.12 yards (37.60 meters)37.6 m: 535.41 tons: Heaviest and longest flying vehicle until the An-225, 1980 crash Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: 30 Jun 1968: Transport: 131: 82.34 yards (75.29 meters) 74.26 yards (67.90 meters) 410.41 tons: 125.49 tons: Largest payload capacity ...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that the two had ...
Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok. A ground-effect vehicle (GEV), also called a wing-in-ground-effect (WIGE or WIG), ground-effect craft/machine (GEM), wingship, flarecraft, surface effect vehicle or ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gaining support from the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth or water.
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.