Today the Dubai Airshow 2023 international air show opens in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

The Russian UAC presents the modernized Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A(E) heavy transport aircraft for the first time.

To be precise, the first airframe of the Il-76MD-90A arrived at the show, built by the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Plant (a subsidiary of PJSC Il - Aviastar) which recently received elements of the new corporate livery of the UAC.

In the ground exhibition of the Russian Helicopters holding you can see the light multipurpose helicopter Ansat in the MedEvac variant, the modernized fire and rescue Ka-32A11M (this is its first debut abroad), the "offshore" Mil Mi-171A3 (the first prototype of the machine, recently repainted in the colors of the launch customer, the Gazprom company, is presented), as well as the Ka-52 combat helicopter with an impressive arsenal of weapons.

The latter is expected to participate in the flight program of the air show. Photo Mikhail Zherdev