An ominous hovercraft sending up a huge plume of mist as it approaches a beach full of sunbathers might sound like something out of a sci-fi film, but it's apparently just a "normal event" in Russia.

That hovercraft caught invading a popular Russian beach last week wasn’t just any old air-cushioned aquatic landing platform, it’s the single biggest such vehicle in the entire Russian arsenal—or in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A massive military hovercraft took a beach ...

The Zubr-class landing craft, originally developed by the Soviet Navy, is the world’s largest military hovercraft — capable ...

NEW ORLEANS — A company is marking the start of production of the Navy's newest hovercraft: a landing craft designed to haul vehicles, heavy equipment, and supplies over water and beaches. Crews are ...

Sunseekers enjoying the white sands of Russia's Baltic Coast got an experience they would not have expected when a military hovercraft made a surprise appearance. Russian authorities confirmed the ...

In the most recent bit of Russian bizarreness, a 550-ton military hovercraft carrying sophisticated weaponry casually pulled up onto a crowded, seemingly public beach. Because, apparently, Russia ...

Amusing posts regarding Russia such as this collection of pictures from Russia on 9gag have become a fairly common occurrence on the internet ... all in good spirit though. In another bizarre and ...

A Russian defense ministry spokesman said that it was the people, not the hovercraft, who were out of place. “Docking at the beach is a regular practice,” he told local papers, according to NPR. “What ...

A giant Russian military hovercraft made an amphibious landing on a beach full of stunned sunbathers along the Baltic coast. The massive 187-foot-long vessel, which rides on a cushion of air, is seen ...

Satellite imagery of China's Jiangnan Shipyard near Shanghai showed China's continuing moves to boost its naval fleet—with the production of additional Yuyi-class air-cushioned landing craft—or ...

L-3 Communications (one of our Fast Company 50 this year) has just announced it’s partnering with Textron to bid for a big future military vehicle contract. By big, we mean biiig: a 73-ton hovercraft ...