The first modernized anti-IL-38N Pacific Fleet (PF) will receive in 2015, according to TASS referring to the press service chief of the Pacific Fleet Captain First Rank Roman Martov.
"Next year, the Pacific Fleet ASW aircraft waits for upgraded IL-38N, which will be the first sign of re naval aviation in the Pacific," - he said.
Upgraded anti-IL-38N development of JSC "Aviation Complex named after SV Ilyushin "(JSC" IL ") differs from the basic model of the new search and targeting system" Novella-P-38 ", which significantly expanded the scope of tasks solved by plane and its combat capabilities.
The first such aircraft of "IL" Narrated by the Russian Navy in July of this year. Total contract provides serial modernization of five aircraft I-38 to the level of IL-38N.