Originally Posted by
peter we
Utter bull****, will never happen.
It already happened.... 51 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster
And though KM (a.k.a. Caspian Sea Monster) was rather an experimental machine, the following one was close to enter into service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
There was no real "use case" for it during the Gorby's "detente" thus it never went into a serial production.