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10/11/22 21:33 PM IST

Antonov An-225

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  • The Antonova An-225 “Mriya” was the largest cargo plane in the world before it was destroyed earlier this year as Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy then announced the plane would rise again to honor the fallen who gave their lives defending Mariupol in the early days of the war.
Antonova An-225 
  • Known formally as the “Cossack”, its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) operating code, the world knew the “super-heavy transport plane” better by its Ukrainian name, “Mriya”, or “the Dream”.
  • The 6-engine 84-metre-long Antonov An-225 aircraft, known as “Mriya”, with its 32-wheel landing gear, first took to the skies in 1988
  • It is the world’s largest cargo aircraft.
  • Mriya was developed for transportation of the Buran shuttle orbiter and components of the Energiya carrier rocket.
  • It was also expected to be used as a flying space launching site in the reusable aerospace transport system (MAKS) with the aeroplane making its first stage and a small-size space shuttle with a fuel tank – the second stage.
  • It can deliver extra-heavy oversize cargo to any point on the globe carrying it either inside the fuselage or on external stores.
Source- CNN 

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