Russian manufacturers created a floating speed vessel XG-8 to save people around the country from drowning or even from bigger threats.

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 ...

A new video shows Russia’s Zubr hovercraft disgorging marine troops on a beach. The Zubr-class is a leftover from the Cold War. The hovercraft, in service with three countries, are some of the ...

Hundreds of beach-goers at an undisclosed location were shocked when their sunbathing was interrupted by a gigantic Russian navy hovercraft sliding from the sea onto the sand.

The hovercraft itself is believed to be a Russian Navy Zubr-type crafts that are manufactured in St. Petersburg. They weigh around 550 tons and are approximately 60 meters long.

A Massive Hovercraft Interrupts This Russian Day at the Beach The amphibious ship coasted ashore in a village in Kaliningrad, a Baltic Sea port lying between Poland and Lithuania.

New Zealander (he’s half Australian) Rudy Heeman has, over 11 years, transformed his hovercraft into a wing-in-ground-effect vehicle. Heeman says he’s found the ideal flight altitude under the ...

Perhaps a more pressing question: even if hundreds of people were trespassing on a government-owned beach, didn’t whoever was in charge of the hovercraft see that the beach was crowded with people?

A video apparently shot by a Russian tourist shows an enormous hovercraft reaching land among hundreds of Russian beachgoers -- but is it any stranger than any of those other Russian videos on ...

MINSK, 10 December (BelTA) – The first test of the prototype hovercraft Yamal 730 was carried out in Saint Petersburg. The vessel has been designed and built by the Saint Petersburg-based design ...

Meanwhile in Russia, some bored firefighters passed the time by making their own working hovercraft out of fire hoses and a trampoline.

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 ...