Doomsday plane (Russia)

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The Doomsday plane is a "third-generation" Airborne Command Post operated by the Russian Air Force, based on the Ilyushin Il-96-400 commercial aircraft airframe.^{[citation needed]}

The aircraft is apparently newly built, as it was reported by the Il-96 production plant, Voronezh Aircraft Production Association, which produced this aircraft. Doomsday plane was delivered on 1 August 2016.^[1]

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and/or era[]

• Boeing E-4
• Boeing E-6 Mercury
• Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A
• Ilyushin Il-80

See also[]

• Doomsday plane
• Dead Hand (nuclear war)

References[]