Meet Russia’s state of the art, currently in development, ‘Doomsday plane’ , which is intended to transport the country’s senior political and military leadership in any future instance of a nuclear attack : The Russian Air Force and Space Forces will receive two airborne commanding posts based on the Il-96-400M plane , according to Russian government news agency RIA Novosti, citing a source in the country’s defense sector.
The Il-96-400M is the modernized version of the Il-96 long-haul, wide-body civilian jetliner . An Il-96 variant currently operates as President Vladimir Putin’s primary means of travel by air, similar to that of the United States’ Air Force One. Currently the Ilyushin-80 serves as the country’s doomsday plane – a modified Il-86 – and is from the soviet era, acting as a mobile command post outfitted advanced radio equipment designed to maintain military communications between the top brass and units […]
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