Next Russian A-50U to be modernised

摘要

AS THE A-50U early warning aircraft took part in a flypast over Moscow marking Victory Day - the end of World War Two - on May 9, the director general of the Vega Company, Vyacheslav Mikheyev, declared that the next, seventh, aircraft of this version will be handed over to the air force after modernisation in 2021. Upgrade of operational Beriev A-50 Mainstay early warning aircraft to the A-50U version began in 2011.