Il-80 (Il-86VzPU, product "65s", according to NATO classification: Maxdome) is an air command post (VzPU), developed in the late 1980s at the Ilyushin Design Bureau on the basis of the Il-86 passenger aircraft.
IL-80 is not equipped with weapons. Aircraft protection is provided by fighter escort aircraft
Il-80 (Il-86VzPU, product "65s", according to NATO classification: Maxdome) is an air command post (VzPU), developed in the late 1980s at the Ilyushin Design Bureau on the basis of the Il-86 passenger aircraft.
Il-80 (Il-86VzPU, product "65s", according to NATO classification: Maxdome) is an air command post (VzPU), developed in the late 1980s at the Ilyushin Design Bureau on the basis of the Il-86 passenger aircraft.
The aircraft is designed to evacuate the country's top military leadership during a threatened period and simultaneously control the armed forces in a conflict of any degree of intensity, including a full-scale nuclear war. Equipped with communications, life support systems, a powerful power plant. Can work completely autonomously. The crew includes system operators and combat control officers. Detailed information on this aircraft is a state secret.
Il-80 (Il-86VzPU, product "65s", according to NATO classification: Maxdome) is an air command post (VzPU), developed in the late 1980s at the Ilyushin Design Bureau on the basis of the Il-86 passenger aircraft.