Aircraft
Ilyushin Unveils Il-38 ASW Upgrade for Russian Navy
The venerable equivalent of the US Navy’s P-3 Orion ASW aircraft is receiving a makeover that will keep it effective.
The eighth Il-38 to be refurbished and upgraded flies over a snowy Ramenskoye on January 31. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
The eighth Il-38 to be refurbished and upgraded flies over a snowy Ramenskoye on January 31. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

The Ilyushin design bureau and the Russian navy have revealed details of a mission systems upgrade and airframe refurbishment of the Il-38 antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. At a ceremony on January 31 at Ramenskoye airbase south of Moscow, Russian naval aviation commander Gen. Igor Kozhin said that “about 30” of the 54 Il-38s in the inventory will be modernized, in a program that will continue until 2025. 

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