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Russian Navy Pacific Fleet Il-38N Maritime Patrol Aircraft Start Proactive Operations in Kamchatka.
| 2016
The
fifth and last modernised Il-38N Maritime Patrol Aircraft of the first
batch just before its delivery to the Russian Navy. Picture: Nikolai
Savinykh |
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The
Il-38N is an upgraded variant of the baseline Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft
designed for searching for enemy submarines and sinking them with depth
charges and torpedoes. In addition, the Il-38N can operate in the electronic
intelligence, sea mine dispenser and search-and-rescue roles. The feature
setting it apart from the baseline model is the Novella-P-38 search and
targeting system that has boosted its searching capabilities over the
baseline model by several times. The aircraft carries new-generation sonobuoys,
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