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A-100 Premier program reaches milestone with flying laboratory taking to the skies
 
A flying laboratory for Russia’s advanced long-range radar detection and control aircraft A-100 Premier has taken to the skies for the first time, a spokesman for the United Instrument-Making Corporation told TASS on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016.
     
A 100 Premier program reaches milestone with flying laboratory taking to the skies 640 001The A-100LL has been designed on basis of the A-50 AEW&C aircraft for ground and flight testing phases
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"An A-100LL [flying laboratory] has performed its first flight as part of flight tests. The flight proceeded in a normal regime," the spokesman said.


Vladimir Verba, the CEO of Vega Group, the aircraft manufacturer and part of the United Instrument-Making Corporation, said earlier that the airborne radar system was being developed under state defense order to replace A-50 and A-50U long-range radar detection and control aircraft. Completion of the A-100 project is expected for 2017

The flying laboratory A-100LL has been developed on the basis of the A-50 aircraft (on the basis of the Ilyushin Il-76 military and transport plane) for ground and flight tests of elements of the perspective radio-technical complex, checks of electromagnetic compatibility of its systems, information exchange protocols and regimes and for other designing purposes.

In a perspective, the A-100 equipment will be mounted on the upgraded Il-76MD-90A plane that will be used as the basis for serially producing Premier airborne complexes. The Il-76MD-90A is equipped with new PS-90A-76 engines and new avionics, as well as glass cockpit.

     
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