Summary: An American analyst poured over a satellite image of a vast and strange aircraft being built on the shore of the Caspian Sea. What was this monster of a machine? The Russians had delved into the world of ground effect vehicles and this is the story.<br> <br> <br> <br> The KM (Korabl Maket) Ekranoplan.<br> <br> <br> <br> The successor to the Caspian Sea Monster, the Lun Class missile carrier, NATO code name Duck!<br> <br> <br> <br> The Duck being decommissioned.<br> <br> <br> <br> The more successful A-90_Orlyonok.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Boeing Pelican ULTRA concept aircraft.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Fred Schaerli, the Stock Archives of Soviet Navy, Mike1979Russia, К.Е.Сергеев and Boeing.
