The Phoenix search and sighting system includes on-board equipment permanently placed on the aircraft, drop buoys for obtaining information about the underwater situation and ground control and verification equipment. In combination with other means and systems, it provides: detection of submarines in any position, exchange of information about the situation between aircraft and with the command post, calculation of data and the use of means of searching and destroying submarines, automatic or semi-automatic control of the aircraft when solving navigation and tactical tasks.

    In order to make more rational use of the information sensors available on the aircraft, optimally combine the work of operators with the onboard computer system, and provide the crew with visual information about the air, surface and underwater situation, indicators of the tactical situation are installed on the IL-38 or TU-142 aircraft, including at the pilots ' workplace.