In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned a colossal Ekranoplan that could travel over the ocean at 600 km/h while carrying fighter jets. This ground-effect aircraft would operate ...

The XF-108 was expected to be able to reach altitudes of 80,000 feet, which would have made the Rapier one of the highest-flying aircraft ever ... incoming supersonic Soviet strategic bombers.

Yak-141 made its first landing on an aircraft carrier’s deck ... GEV (also known as the flying wing or ekranoplan). Research into this aircraft technology in the Soviet Union and Russia has ...