The A-50 (product "A", according to the NATO codification: Mainstay — "Oplot") is a Soviet and Russian long—range radar detection and control aircraft.

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the Vega NGO (Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Engineering), to replace the Tu-126 aircraft that was outdated at that time.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









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