Russian Navy to upgrade Ilyushin IL-38 ASW patrol aircraft

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Russia’s Ministry of Defense has issued a contract for the modernization of the Navy’s fleet of Ilyushin Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft.

Of the 59 aircraft produced between 1967 and 1972, some 18 are currently in operation.
The work was initially planned for the Ministry of Defence’s aircraft repair plant No. 20 at Pushkino, but instead the MoD has contracted UAC’s Ilyushin and Myasishchev to undertake it at the Zhukovsky airbase near Moscow.

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