Ilyushin Il-78

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Il-78 Midas tanker.

The Ilyushin Il-78 (NATO reporting name Midas) is a four-engined inflight refuelling tanker based on the Il-76.

Three aircraft may refuel in flight simultaneously from one Il-78.

All Russian Air force Il-78s are now joined into the special 203 "Orlovski" regiment of aerial tankers.

6 Il-78s were ordered by India for 2003 and 8 were ordered by China in 2005. The initial version of this article was based on material from aviation.ru. It has been released under the GFDL by the copyright holder.

1 Specifications (Il-78)
- 1.1 General characteristics
- 1.2 Performance
2 Operators
3 External links
4 References
5 Related content

[edit] Specifications (Il-78)

[edit] General characteristics

Crew: six
Capacity: 48,000 kg (105,800 lb) of fuel
Length: 46.59 m (152 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in)
Height: 14.76 m (37 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 300 m² (3,230 ft²)
Empty: 40,000 kg (88,000 lb)
Loaded: kg ( lb)
Maximum takeoff: 190,000 kg (418,000 lb)
Powerplant: 4x Aviadvigatel D-30 KP turbofans, 118 kN or (26,500 lbf) thrust each

[edit] Performance

Maximum speed: 850 km/h (530 mph)
Range: 7,300 km (4,551 miles)
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,360 ft)
Rate of climb: m/min ( ft/min)
Wing loading: kg/m² ( lb/ft²)
Thrust-to-weight:

Special equipment: 3 external fuel pumps for simultaneous refuelling of up to 3 aircraft

[edit] Operators

Russian Air Force, Indian Air Force, United States Navy^[1]^{[verification needed]}

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ "Aviation and Cosmonautics" magazine, 10.2006, ISSN 1682-7759 (2 (s/n 0083485558 and 0083487598, registration UR-76759 and UR-76767) were purchaised from Ukraine to replace KC-135R)