Posted on 07/28/2014 8:14:57 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Ilyushin has delivered the first upgraded Il-38N anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to the Russian navy following a modernisation effort that began in 2012.
Handed over on 15 July, the turboprop-powered type is the first of five examples to receive the enhancements under a Rb3.5 billion ($100 million) contract.
Ilyushin
The upgrades focus on the addition of a new Novella P-38 target track and search system developed by St Petersburg-based Leninets, giving the 1960s-era aircraft what the manufacturer calls “a second life”.
The P-38 broadens the area a single Il-38N can cover, while allowing it to track 32 targets simultaneously.
Ilyushin
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the delivery, Maj Gen Alexey Serdyuk said the modernised Il-38N would increase the service’s ASW capabilities. “We have been waiting for this aircraft for a long time,” he adds.
Flightglobal’s MiliCAS database lists the Russian navy as having an active inventory of 16 Ivchenko-Progress AI-20M-powered Il-38s, with a further 12 in storage. Ilyushin has previously indicated that the entire 28-strong fleet is likely to receive the enhancement by 2020.
At first it looked like a DC-6’ski.
It is.
Sounds as if it’s approaching the capability of the P-3B TACNAVMOD of the US Navy c. 1980.
I was thinking that it reminded me of a P-3 Orion, an aircraft of similar configuration and mission.
This new capability is simply an Ilyushin.
Look at those clean-burning turboprop engines. Reminds me of an F-4E Phantom II taking off.
Heh.
The T-56 wasn't the cleanest burning engine out there either - they could see us (P-3B/C) coming from a long ways away - if they were looking.
Speaking of engines...are there two different type on each wing? That seems odd to me.
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Meanwhile, in Britain, the Condem government has scrapped the RAF’s maritime patrol aircraft without replacing them. Britain is governed by morons these days.
In the meantime, the US is building 122 P-8 Poseidons, the Boeing 737-800-based successor to the P-3 Orion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon
No, I don’t think there are two types of engines, just two types of nacelles. The inboard nacelles are larger to accommodate the landing gear when it retracts.
Pretty close . Based in the Ilyushin_Il-18, an airliner that actually took to the air 5 months before the Lockeed Electra
Sukhoi, hasn’t the IN been operating something like this for some time now? or is this an enhanced system ?
P3-ski
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