Jan. 14, 2008 A-50 Airborne Early Warning, Control Aircraft to Be Upgraded Soon Russia’s Vega Consortium has completed research and development work to upgrade A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft, Interfax reported. “The successful completion of research and development work enables to start serial upgrading for A-50 jets of Russia’s Air Force,” a source with the country’s defense and industrial complex told Interfax. First of all, the novelty provides for “serious updating of radar facilities” and analog processing will be replaced by the digital one. Upgraded A-50 has proved it’s apt to the estimated specification, representatives of defense community...