This is the new version:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2913432283

Is there a plan to remake the model? I am making a platform on the water just for such aircraft

please make the modell better

Well.. Real ekranoplan uses so called ground effect . It actually flies at a height of less than 1 meter above sea (or ground). Is the game able to visualize this correctly? I don't think so.

And, secondly, ekranoplan is a class, not a single vehicle. There were dozens of different projects of ekranoplans in USSR, as well as there are in Russia. "Caspian Sea Monster" was just the biggest one (and more or less successful). So, phrase "second generation (1986) Ekranoplan" is just incorrect.

I was just thinking about trying to make a mod for it.

Can you make more ekranoplans ?

Cool mod thanks. At the end of the video (around 40:00) you can see one that exists. Looks as if they are using airbags to stabilize it. Maybe she is being going to be preserved.

There are bits and pieces of these all over the place, It would be wise to restore, and or preserve one...

Thank you [BIA] aHamSandwich and Novu for that information. I learn something new everyday! :)

Yes the second generation (1986) Ekranoplan could launch nukes. This is a model of the first generation from 1966.

Hope this helps with the texturing and some backstory:
Illicit photos from inside the Ekranoplan: https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html
Apparently this thing also could launch nuclear missiles.
https://gdb.rferl.org/63AC5EAC-D52A-4104-84D1-8B861D3EE4E3_w650_r0_s.jpg

Feel free to retexture this mod if you want. All the files are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B7K4RXRgsrPH7F-dmz5GU6SBo9sBGKzU?usp=sharing

Hello Novu, Is there anyway you can add some color choices to this? The design is something that I am not used to and I love it, but it needs some color. :)

Спасибо за старания конечно, но текстуры ужасные..

Some fun facts.
- The real Ekranoplan could reach speeds of 270 knots (500kmh) and is still the fastest multi passenger boat ever built.
- Ekranoplan was a pet project of Nikita Khrushchev who bagged that the USSR had ships that could jump over bridges.
- A 2nd generation Ekranoplan was built in 1986 and has been turned into a museum in present day Russia.
- The 3rd generation Ekranoplan was being developed in the '90s but was never completed. The incomplete hull of the 3rd ship is was sitting in warehouse in Russia until the 2010s and is rumored to have been sold to China for further development.

BRUH