Recent satellite images confirm that North Korea is actively working on converting its Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes into AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft. According to Tech ...

As for the Il-76 “Candid,” it made its maiden flight ... in the same sense that the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane does for U.S. military aviation assets, i.e ...