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The Caspian Monster was a Soviet secret weapon-a hybrid between a ship and airplane known in Russia as ekranoplan! The vessel is thrust-propelled generated by flight near a solid surface virtually hovering a few feet above the water, ice and even solid ground!




In August 1967 a U.S. satellite that was flying over the Caspian Sea 'caught' something amazing! A giant vessel resembling an airplane 'flying' with great speed over the water.The Americans immediately showed interest in the strange Soviet secret weapon and spies began working to learn more about it.They gave him the nickname 'Caspian Monster' in analogy with the monster of Loch Nes.At the time the Caspian monster was the largest and heaviest aircraft of the world.



The ekranoplano as named by the Soviets developed and tested the waters of the Volga in an isolated and closed for foreigners wooded area in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The vessel reached a length of 80 meters, a height of 20 and weighing over 550 tons! Genuine Monster diladi.www.anexigita.comMporouse carry over 137 tons of goods and equipment at a height of only 5 meters with maximum speed with the speed of 500 kilometers time! could fly over water, ice and even ground!'s a little bigger than a large modern transport aeroskafos.I version Lun was able to carry up to four nuclear warheads!


It was much cheaper and had much more capacity than any plane epochis.Itan able to sink any warship epochis.Kyria mission was to destroy aircraft carriers in cooperation with the rest of the fleet. Still had some meionektimata.Chreiazotan too much space to fly and land or ice underneath should be completely leio.Gi I protimoutan his flight over nero.www.anexigita.comEpisis could not do easily maneuvers to turn abruptly because of a wing would find on the ground.



Despite its drawbacks once thought that would replace the transport ships. The ekranoplano egkateleifthike after the end of the Cold War. But the plan has not disappeared teleios.Synechisan be made variants ekranoplanou on a small scale for private use.