Beriev A-100

The Beriev A-100, also known as Izdeliye PM, is a Russian airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Il-76MD-90A transport, developed to replace the Beriev A-50 in Russian Aerospace Forces service. A development contract was signed in 2006 with the Vega Radio Engineering Corporation. The aircraft takes from the Il-476 its PS-90A-76 turbofan engines, 15 percent more powerful than the D-30KP units of the A-50, and carries a rotating dome on two struts that houses a new Vega Premier active phased array radar, steered electronically in elevation and turning once every five seconds. It also has a new electronic warfare suite, a new navigation system and new communications including a satellite antenna, and can detect aerial targets more than 600 km away and warships nearly 400 km away. A flying laboratory, the A-100LL built on an A-50 airframe, first flew on 21 April 2017, and the A-100 made its first flight with a radar turned on on 9 February 2022. Sanctions were reported in 2022 to have delayed the project.