Flight Craft 6: Ily'yushin/Beriyev A-50: The 'Soviet Sentry'
| By: | Gordon, Yefim |
| Publisher: | Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC |
| Print ISBN: | 9781473823914 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781473853768 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriyev bureaux is one of the most interesting military variants in the field of IL-76 military transport. Differing outwardly from the latter mainly in having a conventional “saucer” rotodome, the A-50 entered flight testing in 1980