The Doomsday plane is a planned Airborne Command Post to be operated by the Russian Air Force.
It is based on the Ilyushin Il-96-400-M commercial aircraft airframe and is scheduled to replace the older Ilyushin Il-80 models introduced in the early 1990s.
[1] The production of the aircraft was delayed multiple times and is now scheduled to be started in 2024.
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