The advanced AWACS plane A-100
Premier will have an advanced active phase array capable of detecting and
tracking airborne and land-based targets
ULYANOVSK, November 21. /TASS/. The Taganrog-based
Beriyev Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex (TANTK) on Friday will receive
the first series Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A Ulyanovsk plane for making an advanced
airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft on its base, the plane
manufacturer Aviastar-SP said.
“The A-100 Premier AWACS aircraft prototype will be made
on the Ilyushin aircraft basis in Taganrog (in Russia’s southern Rostov
region),” the company said.
The manufacturing cycle for one Il-76MD-90A plane is two
years and 13 aircraft of the IL-76 family are currently at different stages of
manufacture.
The advanced AWACS plane A-100 Premier designed to
replace the A-50 aircraft will have an advanced active phase array capable of
detecting and tracking airborne and land-based targets.
The Russian Air Force has around 20 A-50 Mainstay AWACS
planes, based on the Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft. The A-50 is equipped with the
large Liana surveillance radar with its antenna in an over-fuselage rotodome
and can control up to ten fighter aircraft for either air-to-air intercept or
air-to-ground attack missions.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 21-11-2014 Photo: ITAR-TASS Marina
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