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Second-generation Il-80 airborne command post ready for delivery

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United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) has completed flight testing of a second-generation Il-80 airborne command and control aircraft and will deliver it to the military by end of this month.

Ilyushin Il-80 over Moscow 6 May 2010
By Leonid Faerberg [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons

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