Winged ships: Soviet hydrofoils forgotten and reborn
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Sovětská „Kaspická příšera zamotala hlavu CIA Její nástupce měl nepozorovaně ničit západní lodě
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Explorer Visits Abandoned and World’s Largest Ekranoplan, Here Are Some Great Pictures of The Inside and Outside
Many people have seen the ekranoplan from outside but few have had a chance to get inside. This vehicle is something in between an aircraft and a ship. “Lun” is the world biggest ground effect vehicle designed in the USSR in late 70s. Now the ekranoplan as big as a five-storey building is in Derbent, it has been preserved as a museum exhibit.
Yuri Urykov, who shared these photos, says he had a real technical ecstasy when he got inside the vehicle. “It has not been used for 20 years, but the filling is almost like new. It smells oil and kerosene, many devices and motors are still there. Just like bed sheets and documents”.