CoolP wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2012 at 4:35pm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEt0bCeTy8 Did you even know they were on to some of those things?  :o 540 tonnes and up to 644 km/h. they should have told us.  :D

Its a sad story. Guys who worked on it ended up with no money and forgotten by everybody after USSR collapse. Ekranoplan was damaged during wrong takeoff procedure, and was never restored.

Some of EU or USA guys made offer to buy wreck and start international project in the beginning of 1990s, but RU rejected it because of "TOP SECRET MILITARY" crap.

Put the war guys off the board, get ekranoplan, and you can make pretty good money in overseas cargo transportation!!! Cheaper than B748, much faster than the ship.

One thing it dont like - high waves.