I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Missile Gap by Charles Stross Yuri Gagarin captains a huge, nuclear-powered Ekranoplan on behalf of the Soviets Set on a sor

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Missile Gap by Charles Stross Yuri Gagarin captains a huge, nuclear-powered Ekranoplan on behalf of the Soviets Set on a sort of alternate Earth in a sort of alternate 1986, The Ekranoplan is so huge it has a runway long enough for Mig fighters on top. When he is given the mission by the Russian Premier, he is told to "boldly go where no soviet man has gone before."