Can You Identify This Aircraft
Can you Identify this plane?, is it even real?
I have seen images and video of many military and civilian aircraft but I can never recall seeing this plane, which appears to be a jet watercraft, and definitely looks military.
Anyone have any idea?






http://www.airbornegrafix.com/HistoricAircraft/Ekranoplans/ekrano1.htm
great, I was hoping someone would let me know, I also got one email to a link on wikipedia, but there were no photos there, however the story was better… here is the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
[...] I asked readers to Identify Another Aircraft that I was completely unfamiliar with and thought might be a fake, but a couple of readers came [...]
this is called the caspian sea monster. It is a Soviet craft I believe there is only one. it is not an airplane as it will not fly. It is called a ground effect plane. It “flies” only a few feet off the surface. I can carry up to 1000 troops
It’s a Lun Class Ekranoplan (Russian for “Screen Plane”) aka a Ground Effect A/C.
I found this one: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/
Excellent find imre!