Originally Posted by
ORAC
Only bomber tanking the old USSR did was the wingtip to wingtip on the Badger, IIRC the IL-86 is purely a tactical fighter-bomber tanker.
There was also the Bison tankers as A_Van posted in reply. They were retired in the mid 1990s. There was no IL-86 Camber tanker variant. In recent years they were looking at an IL-96 tanker but have apparently abandoned that idea.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...gic-air-tanker