The Il-76 transport aircraft (Russian: ?-76, English: IL-76, NATO code: Candid, translation: Yan Zhi, commonly known as: Ilyushin Il-76), is a Soviet-type four-engine large-scale military Min civilian dual strategic transport aircraft. The Il-76 transport aircraft was developed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin Aviation Group (?, or Ilyushin, now a subsidiary of the United Airlines Manufacturing Company) in the 1970 s. It was proposed as a military transport aircraft development project in the late 1960 s and began to design. Since the An-12 has become the main force of the Soviet military air transport, it has appeared to have a small load and insufficient range, Su