MOSCOW, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to four after an Il-76 military transport aircraft crashed in Russia's western region of Ryazan early Friday, TASS news agency reported. Five others were hospitalized, the report said. Previous reports said at least two were killed in the cr...
It comes after Ukraine claimed it hadshot down two high-value Russian aircraftearlier this month. The Ukrainian army said an A-50 spy plane - one of just a handful of early warning and control planes in the Russian fleet - and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post had been destroyed...
Meanwhile, Russia’s Investigative Committee, the main state criminal investigation agency, said Thursday it deduced that the Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine on Jan. 24 was downed using the U.S.-made Patriot air defense system, which Western allies...
Footage posted online on 29 August showed a burning Ilyushin Il-76 'Candid' strategic transport aircraft at Pskov Air Base, about 400 km north of Kyiv and 40 km east of the Russian border with Estonia. Unconfirmed reports say a further four such aircraft from the 334th Military Transport ...
A total of 75 airplanes and helicopters took part in the Victory Day air parade rehearsal, including MiG-31K fighters capable of carrying hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, fifth-generation Su-57 fighters, A-50 long-range reconnaissance aircraft, Il-76 transport aircraft, Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic ...
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An Il-76 transport aircraft was used for bringing in the paratroopers and the gear. Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense The jump took place over Aleksandra Land, the westernmost island on the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Here, at 80 degrees north, Russia’s Arctic force...
“And 15 or 30 tankers is very few considering that the number of aircraft capable of being refueled in mid-air will grow. Moreover, taking into account the shrinking inventory of military-transport aviation, it’s possible that refueling will be required for them in the future in order to...
Russian IL-76 [AWACS,Airborne Warning and Control System, NATO reporting name: Candid] aircraft tail number 78817” were made immediately prior to the crash of the Polish president’s plane, never disclosing however, the type of the mission flown by this highly-specialized aircraft in the ...
In order to improve decision-making flexibility, Aeroflot established three separate subsidiaries, divided by the type of aircraft operated: Golden Star (Tu-154), Moscow Airways (Il-62), and Russky Vityaz (Il-76 and Tu-154); the Airbuses were operated by a separate division. ...