A-50

Adopted in 1989. Serial production was carried out in Tashkent at the plant named after. V. P. Chkalov. It was first shown at MAKS-95. Participated in military parades on May 9, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020 in Moscow.

A-50 (product "A", according to NATO codification: Mainstay - "Oplot") - Soviet and Russian airborne early warning and control aircraft.

It was created on the basis of the Il-76 military transport aircraft at the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. G. M. Beriev together with NPO Vega (Moscow Research Institute of Instrument Engineering), to replace the obsolete Tu-126 aircraft at that time. Together with the Shmel radio-technical complex installed on it, it forms the A-50 radar patrol and guidance aviation complex.

A-50 can be used to detect and track air and surface targets, alert command posts of automated control systems of the Armed Forces of the air and surface situation, be used to control fighter and strike aircraft when they are aimed at air, ground and sea targets, as well as serve as an air command post.