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Strategic and tactical airlifterSoviet Union / Russia · 1985 — present · Active
Ilyushin Il-76
Gajraj
Multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's.
Overview
About the Il-76
The Ilyushin Il-76 is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12. It was developed to deliver heavy machinery to remote and poorly served areas.
Service record
Operations
Named operations this catalogue records Ilyushin Il-76 as having taken part in.
- April 2015EvacuationOperation RaahatOver 4,600 people lifted out of a war zone — from 41 countries, not only India.
- April – May 2015Humanitarian reliefOperation MaitriFirst responders on the ground within six hours of the Gorkha earthquake.
- 3–4 November 1988CombatOperation CactusA coup stopped overnight, 1,200 miles away, by paratroopers who landed in the dark.
- 1987 – 1990PeacekeepingOperation PawanA peacekeeping deployment that became India's longest counter-insurgency abroad.
- 13 April 1984 — presentCombatOperation MeghdootThe seizure of the Siachen Glacier, and the longest-running deployment on Earth.
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