Born from the mind of Robert Bartini, the VVA-14 was meant to hunt U.S. submarines - a bizarre hybrid aircraft that could hover, float, and soar, yet struggled to master any of them.
It was part plane, part ekranoplan, part hovercraft - and it was built to hunt American nuclear submarines across oceans and icy wilderness. The VVA-14 was one of the most ambitious flying machines ...