Ekranoplan - The Caspain Sea Monster

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There was a surprisingly good show on BBC tonight called James May's Big Ideas. Tonights episode featured alternate transport - starting with the Soviet Ekranoplan.
There were really too few of them to have a strategic impact (or tactical either, sadly no fleets of Ekranoplans delivering entire armoured brigades in surprise raids at 250mph ), but they're definitely an interesting curio if your PCs find themselves around the Caspian sea.