In the thick of the Cold War, the Soviet Union built a revolutionary transport vessel that was bigger than any plane and faster than any ship. It was also capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The relationship between the U.S. and Russia is more tense than it’s been since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. American and E.U. sanctions on the Russian government in the wake ...

In the May 1992 issue, Popular Mechanics reported on the bright future of wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) craft, known in Russian as ekranoplane. Emerged from a secretive Soviet Union project, the ...