The Antonov company today provided new details about its massive An-124-100 Ruslan (NATO reporting name Condor) cargo jet ...

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Ukrainian cargo carrier Antonov Airlines has announced that its An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft has been successfully relocated ...

Six engines, a wingspan longer than a football field, and a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tons—the Antonov An-225 Mriya is unlike anything else that has ever flown. From its Soviet origins to its ...

The world’s largest airplane, the Antonov An225 Mriya, was born in the Soviet Union in 1988. It measured 275 feet long and weighed nearly 420,000 pounds, designed to piggyback the USSR’s Buran ...

A look at the Antonov An-225 in Microsoft Flight Simulator, courtesy of Xbox Game Studios. "Using the An-124 Ruslan as a design base, in 1985 Antonov began engineering a project called "Mk. 401." ...

The former director of Antonov State Enterprise, Serhii Bychkov, was charged with official negligence leading to the destruction of the world's largest cargo aircraft AN-225 Mriya, Ukraine's ...

The Mriya was originally built by Kyiv-based Antonov in 1988 for the Soviet Union, as a means of transporting the Buran, the USSR’s space shuttle, much the same way that a modified Boeing 747 ...

Antonov estimated that it would need more than €500 million ($532 million) to get it back in the air. Mriya, pictured here in 2020, was destroyed by Russian forces in February 2022.

The world’s largest plane, the Antonov AN-225, has been destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, generating alarm and sadness among the aviation world ...

Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Battle for Hostomel Airport, northwest of Kyiv and home to the Mriya cargo plane, began the very next day.

The world’s largest aircraft, the Ukrainian Antonov An-225 “Mriya,” was destroyed by Russian forces during an airport assault last week, according to Ukrainian officials. “Russia may have ...