Ekranoplans—or ground-effect vehicles—are known mostly from Soviet experiments, but the U.S. once had plans for its own ...

During the height of the space race, the Soviet Union proposed a flying sea platform capable of launching spacecraft directly into orbit. This ekranoplan design would transport a space shuttle ...

Poseidon Aerospace emerges from stealth with its uncrewed seal glider dubbed the Seagull. Inspired by the Soviet Caspian Sea Monster, Seagull uses low-altitude flight to reduce drag. Poseidon ...

For friends-turned-cofounders David Zagaynov, Parker Tenney, and Isaac Baumstark, that fixation was the ekranoplan — a Soviet hybrid boat-plane developed during the Cold War-era that skimmed ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as the “Great Patriotic War.” Betrayed by their purported “allies ...

But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

A COLD War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus is set to crash back to Earth, and it could hit the UK. Kosmos 482 took off in 1972, but a failed launch left the spaceship circling lifelessly ...

In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens turning 23 Soviet soldiers to stone after a UFO was shot down.

What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft — their imprisonment — in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks, months, or ...

which had a terrifying encounter with a Soviet commando in 1990, at the height of the Cold War According to the report, published by RadarOnline.com, the encounter caused the aliens to turn the ...