Zvezda 7024 1/144 Ilyuschin A-50 Mainstay

A-50 Created on the basis of the IL-76 military transport aircraft at the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after. GM Beriev, to replace the outdated Tu-126 aircraft. Together with the radio-technical complex "Shmel", installed on it, forms an aviation complex of radar surveillance and guidance. Adopted in 1989. The A-50 can be used to detect and track air and surface targets, to notify the command posts of automated control systems of the Armed Forces' types of air and surface situations, to control aircraft of fighter and strike aircraft when aiming at air, ground and sea targets, and serves as an air command post.