A-50 Mainstay Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft

The A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft (AEW&C) was developed and bogus by the Beriev Aircraft Research and Engineering Circuitous Joint Stock Company based at Taganrog in the Rostov Region of Russia. The A-50 aircraft was developed from the llyushin IL-76MD aggressive carriage aircraft bogus by the Ilyushin Aviation Circuitous Joint Stock Company based in Moscow.

The aircraft is accepted in the West by the Nato codename Mainstay. Beriev aircraft commonly backpack the Russian appellation Be- followed by the number, however, the A-50 aircraft retained the acclaimed A-designation which Beriev allocated to the aboriginal prototype.

The A-50 entered account with the Russian Air Force in 1984. Currently, 16 aircraft are operational in the Russian Air Force. The account activity of the Russian AF A-50s were upgraded to 2020. The overhauled A-50M Mainstay aircraft began official testing on 10 September 2008.

The modernised A-50 aircraft can now yield added ammunition on lath with the aforementioned abandonment weight, while accretion the ambit and mission time performance. A digital aeronautics arrangement chip into flight and aeronautics circuitous offers a affecting access in the abyssal accuracy.

The A-50 entered account with the Russian Air Force in 1984, and is anticipation to accept 16 aircraft still in service. The latest version, the A-50U was apparent in 1995. Russian AF A-50s are upgraded to extend their account activity to 2020. The upgraded aircraft entered account in 2008.

The A-50 aircraft detects and identifies aerial objects, determines their coordinates and flight aisle abstracts and transfers the advice to command posts. The A-50 aswell acts as a ascendancy centre, allegorical fighter-interceptors and appropriate air force aircraft to action areas in adjustment to advance arena targets at low altitudes. The role of the A-50 is commensurable to that of the US's E-3 AEW arrangement developed by Boeing.

The A-50 is adapted with a self-defence arrangement if aerial en-route and over convoying zones. The self-defence arrangement ensures aegis from guided and accidental weapons of the enemy's fighters advancing the aircraft from its foreground and rear hemispheres. The self-defence arrangement includes an cyberbanking countermeasures system.

The aircraft can aswell be adequate from the enemy's fighter aircraft via advice of affable fighters. The aircraft radio and electronics systems are able-bodied adjoin adverse jamming and accommodate acceptable action achievement in close cyberbanking countermeasures environments.