The assembly of the third generation "Doomsday aircraft" based on the Il-96-400M has begun in Russia

The assembly of new "Doomsday planes" based on the Il-96-400M has begun at the facilities of the Voronezh Aircraft Plant (VASO). At the moment, we are talking about two new air command posts, but the order of a third is not ruled out.

As the RIA News With reference to a source in the Russian defense industry, Voronezh has already begun assembling the first of the two ordered air command posts. The work is being carried out within the framework of the Link-S project. There is no data on the second plane yet, most likely it will be laid down later, but the third issue has not yet been resolved. It is not ruled out that the Ministry of Defense will nevertheless order another "Yom Kippur aircraft."

At present, Russia is armed with second-generation air command posts based on the Il-80. They are designed to operate in conditions of failure of ground control points, nodes and communication lines, a rapidly changing operational situation, as well as in the case of the enemy's use of nuclear weapons. It is for this reason that planes of this type are called “Doomsday planes”. There are four cars in total in Russia.

In 2019, a decision was made to modernize the existing VKP fleet of the second generation, while work was underway to create the "Doomsday aircraft" of the next, third generation. The aircraft was developed on the basis of the improved IL-96-400 by the Nizhny Novgorod research and production enterprise "Polet", which developed the second generation VKP.

Note that today only the United States and Russia are armed with "Doomsday planes".

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[your1970]

Now commentators will come running shouting - "And everything was stolen from the previous one !!"
And then the political ones will run up with a shout - "Oligarchs !!"
And then realists will come - "Yes, everything secret was filmed there a long time ago!"
And then pessimists will come - "And this one will be stolen!"
And then Meehan will come - "Nothing, we will defeat everyone anyway"

I'll go into the comments tomorrow to see how much I guessed by species. If you are not lazy, you can calculate the number and display the average numbers of all groups on the site

[Seryoga64]

Quote: your1970

I'll go to the comments tomorrow to see

There's no point
FSE it will be so

[Finches]

We have a Doomsday plane and a Doomsday neighbor country ...

[Trevis]

Quote: your1970

I'll go into the comments tomorrow to see how much I guessed by species. If you are not lazy, you can calculate the number and display the average numbers of all groups on the site

And who then gives you pluses?

[knn54]

Sergei, pessimists will ask why China is not building. Well, further ... sawing off the money.
Truly VASO takes off at command posts.
This means that the former TUPOLEV plant will be a branch of PJSC Il "".

[Alecsandr]

Are you the smartest on this site? There are people here who are smarter than you. I'm not saying this immediately to myself.

[Yuriy71]

And tomorrow I will come in and calculate how many "Shapkozakidatel" and "Shashkomakhatel" we have! One, in your face - already IS! First - Come on !!!

[Maikcg]

We will win all the same! (by points)

[Vadim237]

When we make a competitor to the Boeing 777 9X for civilians and the military, but for this we will need to wait for the PD 35 and its more powerful modifications.

[Boa kaa]

1. If you just wait, then you can be late ... Therefore, while the Il-96-400 will be, and then we will look. Maybe 929 will do with time.
2. About dvigla - I completely agree. It is necessary to set the task - to force the PD-35, because the hot part already seems to be there. And the axiom that cars are built around the engine has not lost its relevance today.

[Maikcg]

I meant the Day of Judgment.

[Alecsandr]

God bless! Although the capacity of the Voronezh aircraft plant will be loaded.In Soviet times, he produced a lot of things.

[URAL72]

The factory is good, but the presence of this machine is even more important. Only airfields are not enough for her, and of course they will be hit in the first place. We need a VKP based on the Il-76 - it will take off from the primer.

[Alecsandr]

You have rightly noticed this. IL-76 is needed now as air

[DivannyiExpert]

The VKP based on the Il-76 has existed for a long time and 2 such aircraft are in service. The code of this aircraft is Il-76 VKP or Il-82.

[bayard]

Interestingly, they will be assembled from scratch, or re-equipped from those transport vehicles that were dumped in Voronezh?

[Orange bigg]

Those transport ones are Il-96-300, and here it is talking about the construction of new Il-96-400, which are longer in length and have PS-90A1 engines, each of which is under 18 tons of thrust.

[bayard]

This is what I wanted to hear.
Therefore, Voronezh will restore the competence and skills of assembling the Il-96-400 for the time being on these specific orders, and when the PD-35 is ready, it will be possible to start production of wide-body passenger cars in our country.
And together with China, our joint project.

[Orange bigg]

Competencies have been restored somewhere since 2017. A new Il-96-400M is under construction.

The new airliner differs from its predecessor, the Il-96-300, in size - its fuselage is lengthened by 8.59 meters. In addition, thanks to four powerful PS-90A1 engines, the Il-96-400M is capable of carrying up to 58 kg of payload, that is, almost a third more than the previous model, and flying at a cruising speed of 000 km / h (870 Mach).

... Currently, there are three options for the layout of the liner: for 305, 350 and 402 seats. Previously, layouts were provided for 350, 370 and 400 seats (as indicated in the visualization below), in any case, the number of seats will depend on the wishes of customers, that is, airlines. In comparison with its foreign counterparts, the aircraft can compete actively due to its cost and spaciousness. The takeoff weight of the Il-96-400M reaches 270 tons, and the maximum flight range at maximum load is 6 kilometers.

This is what the economy class interior looks like.

And this is a business-class lounge (of course, with access to Wi-Fi)

https://www.popmech.ru/technologies/470022-il-496-kak-vyglyadit-otechestvennyy-layner-novogo-pokoleniya/

[Vadim Ananyin]

Management and communication. I had such a point in the reports that were sent to the office.
And you cannot lose control because death is like for a country and a nation.
We all need these planes and not someone personally.

[old grandfather]

After a nuclear strike, this plane is only needed by the leadership - where to put their feet.

[Marachuh]

We will wait for 1 flight, it will be interesting to see. Fortunately, the VASO airfield is within the city limits.

[Cananecat]

Quote: Marachuh

We will wait for 1 flight, it will be interesting to see.

An ordinary flight of a large aircraft.
But "out of the corner of my eye" to look into the work of operators, it would be interesting.

[yfast]

They will do the third, they will do the fourth, then the fifth. You can check the quality only once, and no one will fix the shortcomings. Can you come up with modularity and not make a new plane when switching from one series of microcircuits to another?

[URAL72]

Can you come up with modularity and not make a new plane when switching from one series of microcircuits to another? "

Are they doing something different now?

[Vadim Ananyin]

I do not agree with you, replacing the element base always leads to a decrease in the size of the blocks, an increase in the processing speed of information, I saw it myself. As the blocks work, it does not matter for what, what equipment in what environment.

[tralflot1832]

The photo is not a Doomsday plane, that only has portholes for pilots. If it appears at your airport with the first one, then it smells of kerosene! An extremely uncomfortable sight.

[Torins]

The main advantage of the Il-76 is that it can operate from unpaved strips.

[Alexey RA]

Quote from rudolf

On the basis of the IL-96, another tanker could be made

Already tried.

In 2015, the press service and information department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the military department had signed a contract with the UAC for the construction of Il-96-400TZ tanker aircraft. This vehicle is based on the IL-96-400T cargo modification. It will be able to transfer over 65 tons of fuel at a distance of up to 3,5 thousand km.

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In 2018, the Ministry of Defense abandoned this idea:

The Ministry of Defense terminated a contract concluded in 2015 with the UAC for the supply of two strategic refueling aircraft for military aviation. Their final price - taking into account the R&D cycle, flight tests and the cost of extending the resource - turned out to be much higher than the initially discussed one. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense for this money would not solve the problem of entering serial deliveries of such aircraft.

[SovAr238A]

Quote from rudolf

On the basis of the Il-96, it would still be possible to make a tanker and use it as a platform for the A-100. The IL-76 is not always rational.

The Air Force refused from a tanker based on the Il-96 ...
As far as I understand, these are the very last 3 fuselages of the Il-96 from the stocks that for the last 3-4 years everyone wants to attach somewhere ...
And they won't be able to produce any more. and will not.
Either they wanted to be a tanker, or a passenger to Aeroflot by order ...
They gave up everything.
Apparently only here, in the All-Union Communist Party and could.

[Lontus]

This only underlines the rotten position of those who justify the deliberate collapse of the civilian aircraft industry in Russia. And the tortoise ostentatious "revival type", the result of which in the Russian Federation is only Poghosyan's ugly miscarriage "puperjet".
A fully-fledged military aircraft industry is impossible without a developed civil aircraft industry.

[Vadim237]

Almost 220 Superjets were produced and at the current MAKS another 58 were ordered so that the plane took place and all complaints about it were reduced to weak technical support.

[nonsense]

I never understood this purely American trick with the "doomsday plane" - VKP who? President? Air Force / Aerospace Forces / Air Defense / Missile Defense Commander? Here's a typical "doomsday" - nuclear war. A nuclear charge explodes at an altitude of 100 km. As a result, absolutely all electronics fail under it on an area of ​​several thousand kilometers - an electromagnetic pulse in action. The All-Union Communist Party (:) with the American president and his Caudle - namely, on such a plane in all amerskih films they are trying to shove their president) safely falls to the ground - all the electronics on board are out of order. The controls are completely lost ... So WHY copy such an aircraft? Who will explain to me what I do not understand?

[tralflot1832]

And from what the Bonbu king was dropped, all three planes returned to base, not on a pedal drive.

[nonsense]

you're just a sage! There was at least one transistor electronic device on those three planes? on boards? on assemblies? -- No! there was nothing to fail there as a result of interference from EMP ...

[Alexey RA]

Quote: nespich

Here's a typical "doomsday" - nuclear war. A nuclear charge explodes at an altitude of 100 km. As a result, absolutely all electronics fail under it on an area of ​​several thousand kilometers - an electromagnetic pulse in action.

Civilian electronics - yes. Military protected - no longer.
In the ZVO in the 90s, EMP from nuclear weapons and ways to reduce its impact were considered in detail, including on the on-board electronics of aircraft (complete shielding of equipment or volumes where it is located + filters at all inputs and outputs from under the screen). Then it was expensive, cumbersome, difficult, but already possible.

[nonsense]

Yes, I remember that article ... I ran in passing - I was young ... Something about shielding and a single-wire circuit in electronic technology was being talked about ... But the mind refuses to understand - how? How do you screen it? - Any car can be said to be shielded! - He's made of steel! And there's nothing to say about the tank ... But no ...

[yanus]

safely falls to the ground - all electronics on board are out of order. Control is completely lost ...

In short, such aircraft are built taking into account the impact of an electromagnetic pulse. An impulse of high power, of course, will "break through" the protection, but such power is within a radius of a couple of kilometers from a nuclear explosion. There, and without an impulse, the plane will get it.

[Ros 56]

Is it time to wrap yourself in a white sheet soon enough? Or does someone want to draw attention to themselves?

[Walking towards the light]

Maybe our media should shout less about what and where they are building for the "doomsday"? "You know too much. You will be buried with honors after a car accident. (Schellenberg, episode 9)" I love the silent. If a friend is silent, it is a friend, and if an enemy, it is an enemy. I respect them. (Müller, 3 series) "Quotes from a very good film)).

[Naughty]

Quote: Alecsandr

You have rightly noticed this. IL-76 is needed now as air

Yes, we need a doomsday plane But not Il 96 and 76 We need AN-2 !!!! Because he does not care where he sits if cho. And most importantly, no one will notice it on the radar And for its construction you need permission from Ukraine And she will not give it for anything So we will not have any doomsday planes In the literal sense of this expression

[Captain45]

Quote: Vzdrincher

Yes, we need a doomsday plane But not Il 96 and 76 We need AN-2 !!!! Because he does not care where he sits if cho. And most importantly, no one will notice it on the radar And for its construction you need permission from Ukraine And she will not give it for anything So we will not have any doomsday planes In the literal sense of this expression

And then, it is not a pity to drop him right on the head of the foe with the words: "Here you, foe, and the Day of Judgment!"

[Kushka]

Quote: Vzdrincher

Quote: Alecsandr

You have rightly noticed this. IL-76 is needed now as air

Yes, we need a doomsday plane But not Il 96 and 76 We need AN-2 !!!! Because he does not care where he sits if cho. And most importantly, no one will notice it on the radar And for its construction you need permission from Ukraine And she will not give it for anything So we will not have any doomsday planes In the literal sense of this expression

You are wrong! There will be - different and many (well, not everything can be told). Or do you think that the Chief Siberian on a hang glider is exactly what they wrote about it? Oh naive


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[Sergej1972]

And what kind of IL-80? This is the first time I read about such a plane.