The future Il-112V light military transport aircraft will be equipped with a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS), according to Alexey Kuznetsov, CEO of the Moscow Institute of Electromechanics and Automation (MIEA), which is developing the system.

"MIEA is ready to adapt the SINS system for the Il-112V. We are interested in providing the aircraft with the system as soon as possible. The system has already been mass produced, and even if some modification is required, it will not take a long time,” said Alexey Kuznetsov.

The strapdown inertial navigation system is designed to determine the location of an object, to carry out system processing, and issue navigation and flight information. Thus, SINS is able to determine the coordinates and parameters of an object in offline mode and without ground-based, naval, or satellite signals.

The Il-112V light military transport aircraft is designed for the transportation and airdrop of light weapons and military equipment, goods, and personnel, as well as for the transport of a wide range of different loads in the commercial operation of the aircraft. The Il-112V will replace the An-26.

A contract was signed with the Russian Defense Ministry for the Il-112V in December 2014. As reported by Yuri Borisov, deputy head of the military department, the Il-112 should make its first flight in mid-2017, with the beginning of mass production planned for 2019.