Flight Craft 6: Il'yushin/Beriyev A-50
Yefim Gordon
Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriyev bureaux is one of the most interesting military variants in the field of IL-76 military transport. Differing outwardly from the latter mainly in having a conventional saucer rotodome, the A-50 entered flight testing in 1980; the new Soviet AWACS entered service four years later. The improved A-50M was developed several years after that. The type continues in service with the Russian Air Force today, and the fleet is being upgraded to A-50U standard. This book describes the A-50's thrilling developmental history, taking in its many variants (including the A-50EI export model for India) and gives an extensive overview of the various scale model kits covering the subject currently available on the market.
श्रेणियाँ:
खंड:
6
साल:
2015
प्रकाशन:
Pen & Sword Aviation
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
96
ISBN 10:
1473853761
ISBN 13:
9781473853768
श्रृंखला:
Flight Craft
फ़ाइल:
EPUB, 91.29 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2015