Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else—a flying machine that could take off vertically, skim across water, and detect submarines. The result was the VVA-14, a ...

“There are currently around 3,000 hovercraft in Russia. They deliver goods to out-of-the-way parts of the country, including the Arctic. The Haska-10 may well be included in the ship-building ...

As with other commercial hovercraft, the Project 1232.2 Yevgeny Kocheshkov utilizes an air cushion design that allows it to move across the beach and even bypass small obstacles such as ditches ...

which is nothing new when it comes to Russia's heavy weapons exports. This, combined with Greece's economic turmoil and the hovercraft's unpredictably high operating costs have resulted in two of ...

It’s so annoying when you’re just trying to soak up some of that gorgeous Russian sun and a giant military water vessel plows into the beach, right? God. “Sunbathers in Russia got more than ...

Here's a review of some of Russia's more menacing military machines. Bora-class guided-missile hovercraft: This ship is actually a catamaran with a skirt that turns it into a hovercraft.

"There are more passenger hovercraft services around the world than people realise," says Avery. "There's quite a lot of passenger services that operate between China and Russia. We've got a ...

Before 2014, similar engines for ships were either delivered by Ukraine's Zorya-Mashproekt enterprise or produced in cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian manufacturers MOSCOW, November 24.

The small amphibious assault hovercraft has an operating range of ... and eight sets of Igla man-portable air defense systems. Russia's defense industry Russian UAV teams positively assess ...