Il-38
wp_il-38AircraftUSSRMPA,ASW
- Role
- MPA,ASW
- Size
- Large
- Max Speed
- 250 kn
- Ceiling
- 32000 ft
- Range Units
- Miles
Description
Known to NATO as the "May" and to the Warsaw Pact as the "Dolphin" the Il-38 is a development of the Il-18 airliner to provide an anti-submarine and maritime patrol capability. It is capable of laying huge barriers of sonobuoys, and then pressing home the attack with an assortment of depth charges and homing torpedoes. This is the original version, equipped with earlier models of sonobuoys and the AT-1, AT-2 or APR-1 torpedoes.
Unit
- Type
- Aircraft
- Subtype
- Large
- Role
- MPA, ASW
- In service
- 1969–
- Loadouts
- Default, ASW, ASWBomb
Performance
- Wingspan
- 37.4 m
- Max G
- 2.5 g
- Climb rate
- 10 m/s
- Ceiling
- 32,000 ft
- Max speed (sea level)
- 250 kn
- Stall speed
- 95 kn
- Mach limit
- 0.61 M
- Empty mass
- 34,700 kg
- Max fuel
- 26,650 kg
- Engines
- 4
- Cruise
- Mach 0.43 · 5,130 miles
Signatures
- Visual ID range
- 8 nm
- RCS
- 120
- IR signature
- Medium