What happened to the Lun-class ekranoplan?
What happened to the Lun-class ekranoplan? It was retired in the late 1990s and sat unused at a Caspian Sea naval base in Kaspiysk until 2020. The second Lun-class ekranoplan was partially built in the late 1980s. While its construction was underway, it was redesigned as a mobile field hospital for rapid deployment to any ocean or coastal location. Where is the Lun-class ekranoplan located? Derbent It's here, next to the ancient city of Derbent, in Russia's republic of Dagestan, that the 380-ton "Lun-class Ekranoplan" has found its new, and most likely definitive, home. Is the Caspian Sea Monster real?...