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

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

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 ...

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

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...

The secretive Pentagon research agency says the Liberty Lifter programme has proven the viability of building an amphibian ...

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The Liberty Lifter X-plane is a concept for a ground effect vehicle for “ seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift ” according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The Liberty Lifter project represents a bold step into the future of maritime transportation, promising to revolutionize how the US Navy and Marines approach rapid ocean transport.

The video shows how Liberty Lifter can combine heavy-lift transport at the scale of a ship with the speed of an aircraft for fast logistics missions in a sea environment. Aurora Flight Sciences ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk ...