By Victor Duda
This plane, which has been stored since 1993, has never reached mass production. Defense Express said Il-76PP. IL-76PP was created in the mid-1980s on the basis of IL-76MD transport aircraft. The works were carried out at the AGC them. Beriyev in Taganrog. The main task of the aircraft was to be the production of powerful radio electronic obstacles, which required the installation of a unique complex of "Landysh".
The same complex was previously used on Su-24MP aircraft, built in the number of only 12 units. To ensure the operation of the Landysh system on IL-76PP, it was necessary to install additional power sources. The aircraft housed two generators based on AI-24W aviation engines. However, even this did not provide stable operation of the equipment. The main problem was the electromagnetic incompatibility of the equipment of the aircraft and the Landysh complex.
The containers with the equipment installed at the endings of the wings created obstacles to other aircraft systems, which made it impossible to complete the main task. "In other words, IL-76PP was a monstrous and at the same time non-functional development, unable to fulfill its main task, so in 1993 this aircraft was stored in the territory of the above-mentioned educational aerodrome in Irkutsk," the observers summed up.
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