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The Caspian Sea Monster at Kaspiysk photographed with a KH-8 reconnaissance satellite in 1968. The ekranoplan featured a constant-chord main wing and a stabilizer with notable dihedral (visible in the image as a difference in brightness between the left and right side of the stabilizer) and an unswept aft trailing edge.
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.
The Lun-class ekranoplan was pulled from the water by three tug boats and two escort vessels.
The Lun-class is identifiable by the six missile launchers mounted on top of the fuselage, which the Caspian Sea Monster lacked. This is simply a case of misidentification by the sources, with the real Caspian Sea Monster still being at the bottom of the sea. - ZLEA T \ C 23:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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.
Kraken Mare / ˈ k r ɑː k ən ˈ m ɑːr eɪ / is the largest known hydrocarbon sea on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. It was discovered by the space probe Cassini in 2006, and was named in 2008 after the Kraken, a legendary sea monster. [1] It covers an area slightly bigger than the Caspian Sea on Earth, making it the largest known lake ...
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