Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be ...

American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

On July 7, Aviation Week’s Brian Everstine reported on DARPA’s decision to end its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale military seaplane demonstrator. Program officials touted the program’s ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

Chilling pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time.

CHILLING pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time. And the wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft, commonly known as an ...

In the 1960s, CIA analysts first detected a mysterious vehicle on the coast of the Caspian Sea belonging to the Soviet Union.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...

Turkish company SolidAERO has showcased a new ground-effect maritime kamikaze drone called Talay ahead of the IDEF 2025 trade ...