The Beriev A-60 is a Soviet-Russian airborne laser laboratory aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-76MD transport. In the 1970s a special aviation complex was established by the Soviets at Taganrog machine-building factory to develop airborne laser technology for the Soviet military. In 1977 Beriev OKB started the design of a flying laboratory designated '1А'.
Made by Beriev.
It is the successor of the Ilyushin Il-76 .