Radio tools from Russia’s Doomsday airplane stolen in broad daylight

The Investigation Division of the Russian Ministry of Inside Affairs for town of Taganrog has filed a prison case into the theft of kit from the command publish of the Ilyushin Il-80 plane, in any other case generally known as the “doomsday plane.” The harm brought about was evaluated at multiple million rubles, the web site of the Major Directorate of the Ministry of Inside Affairs for the Rostov Area stated. Representatives of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Advanced (TANTK) named after Beriev reported that through the inspection of the Il-80, which was being repaired at Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield, it turned out that the cargo hatch of the plane was opened. Thirty-nine radio station blocks and 5 mom boards from 5 comparable dismantled blocks went lacking from the compartments of the plane. In line with legislation enforcement companies, specialists of the plant had been altering the lubricant on the shock absorbers of the touchdown gear of the airplane. All onboard tools had been in place by the point when the works had been accomplished. It was reported that in 2020, TANTK spent as a lot as 24 million rubles on the safety of the airfield. The contractor undertook to rearrange 5 stationary and three cellular round the clock safety posts on the territory of the airfield to make sure that safety guards would monitor the plane on the airfield, patrol the territory and forestall any sort of theft of the property of the advanced. On the identical time, the revealed documentation contained detailed plans of the airport and places of all safety posts, checkpoints, fast response groups and even surveillance cameras. Dmitry Peskov, an official spokesman for the Russian President, acknowledged, when commenting on the incident that “conclusions will probably be drawn.” “After all, an investigation will probably be carried out, and measures will probably be taken in order that this doesn’t occur once more,” he stated. In line with specialists, it’s unattainable to open the cargo hatch of the Il-80 identical to that. In an effort to carry out this operation, one must energy up the plane, get into the cockpit and discover acceptable switches on the flight engineer’s console. As well as, it takes as much as six hours for the operation to take away radio station blocks. It additionally seems unusual why such an essential plane needed to be taken to Taganrog for such a routine process – every other nearest service base would do as a substitute. To crown all of it, special-purpose plane often arrive to have such technical procedures carried out with out secret tools on board.