Posted on 12/02/2015 9:11:00 AM PST by amorphous
Russia announced on Tuesday that by the end of this month it will deploy the latest version of its giant command and control aircraft designated for use during nuclear war or national disasters. The flying command center will be able to coordinate the worldwide operations of its ground, naval, air and missile forces, including nuclear weapons, as well as the country's satellites. Russian military sources said that the Ilyushin-80 jet would be used when the command infrastructure is disrupted due to a nuclear war, or when ground communication systems are absent. The sources said the plane will be permanently staffed with senior generals, operational commanders and technicians.
Looks like a Velociraptor’s head.
Regardless, it won’t be worried about an errant S-400 locking onto them.
Plane ugly!
Off hand, it looks to me like a two-sided planar phased array probably in L or S band. Not rotating like some of ours have. It’s probably faster in terms of tracking multiple targets. Probably has at least a 400 km range also. Just wild ass guessing from a picture.
I thought it looked pretty cool.
What do you make of those pods on either side, inboard of the engines?
I’m guessing they are EW jammers and ES pods.....
Vodka tanks, you can’t have a proper nuclear apocalypse without vodka.
That’s a good question.
See post 7
Interesting timing from Vlad
and not have FR scramble the letters. can we fix this? Please?
Thanks!
I was thinking maybe they might be some kind of laser from what appear to be clear dome covers in front of each?
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