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Naval Forces News - Russia
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Russian Navy to get its Seventh Upgraded Il-38N Maritime Patrol Aircraft
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| The flight tests of the seventh upgraded Ilyushin Il-38N (NATO reporting name: May) antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft are drawing to an end at the airfield of the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky (Moscow Region), according to sources on the Internet. | |||
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 The seventh Il-38N MPA of the Russian Navy during flight tests in Zhukovsky. Picture by Alexander Mishin / russianplanes.net |
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| Open-access photographs published on the Internet show an Il-38N plane equipped with the Novella system. The aircraft has side number ‘11 yellow’, construction number 880010308, serial number 103-08 and registration number RF-75308 and is named after Soviet pilot Mikhail Verbitsky. As was reported in the press, Ilyushin had completed the upgrade of five Il-38 ASW aircraft for the Russian Defense Ministry and the latter placed a contract for upgrading more planes in May 2015. The first upgraded Il-38N arrived in Kamchatka in March 2015. The updated version differs from the baseline model in having the Novella-P-38 surveillance/targeting system that has increased the its maritime surveillance capability by several times over the baseline model. The plane uses new-generation radio sonobuoys and carries an electronic intelligence system and a thermal imager. © Copyright 2016 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
