AWACS/Command post aircrafts of RuAF

GarryB wrote:

Very late in the game. China KJ-2000 got AESA way back in the early 2010s and now have dozens of KJ-2000.

But the performance figures for the KJ-2000 are worse than for upgraded A-50Us... 100 targets at 470km is just pretty ordinary performance... especially when you consider that being an AESA it will be enormously more expensive.

In Taganrog robbed "doomsday plane", took out secret equipment

7.12.2020

In the Rostov region, unknown people stole equipment from the Il-80 plane. This is an air command post designed to control troops in the event of a nuclear war.

As reported by RIA Novosti, with reference to the representative of the transport Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal district, the Taganrog aviation scientific and technical complex addressed the police with a message about the theft. Berieva (TANKT). Sources confirmed that it is the Il-80 aircraft that was at the enterprise for maintenance and planned modernization.

RBC asked for a comment at PJSC "the Taganrog aviation scientific-technical complex im. G. M. Beriev" and sent a request to the Office of transport Ministry of Russia on skfo.

The plane was at the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield. In the morning, when examining the Il-80, experts noticed that the cargo hatch has traces of hacking. It turned out that radio equipment was missing from the plane.

"The aircraft operation engineer said that the TANKT was replacing the lubricant on the rods of the shock-absorbing landing gear struts. According to him, all onboard devices at the time of acceptance of the aircraft were in place. After the work was completed, the main entrance, cargo Bay hatch, and three emergency exits were sealed. The last time during the inspection on November 26, all the seals were intact, " the source told the TV channel.

39 radio blocks and five more boards from five of the same dismantled blocks were taken out of the plane. The criminals left traces on the plane: fingerprints were found on the surface of the opened cargo hatch, and there are traces of his shoes in the compartments of the plane.

The Il-80 is called the "doomsday plane"because it was created in the Soviet Union to evacuate the country's top leadership and control troops in the event of a full-scale nuclear war. The first flight of the aircraft was made in 1985, and it was commissioned in 1992. In addition to Russia, only the United States has aircraft of this type.

http://k-politika.ru/v-taganroge-obokrali-samolet-sudnogo-dnya-vynesli-sekretnuyu-apparaturu

FFjet wrote:Hope it won't cause much leak. Really BAD news.

par far wrote:Are there traitors inside that did this?

https://www.rt.com/russia/508998-doomsday-plane-electronic-equipment-stolen/

miketheterrible wrote:Fair. I like Par Far and I'm not trying to be rude or hard on him.

par far wrote:Are there traitors inside that did this?

https://www.rt.com/russia/508998-doomsday-plane-electronic-equipment-stolen/

Arrow wrote:This is a big discredit for Russia?

Tsavo Lion wrote:Interesting details: 
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2020/12/07/13390489.shtml

Tsavo Lion wrote:IMO, most likely they wanted to get precious metals from its electronics. 
OTH, I couldn't find anything about China's doomsday planes, so that gear could be sold to them as well for more $ than they can sell its extracted gold &/ platinum. The PRC now has a nuclear triad & needs such planes.

The joke is though, the equipment is really old. As old as 1993.