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Antonov An-124 Ruslan

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Roger November 15, 2024, 2:05pm 1

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Antonov An-124 Ruslan

The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Russian: Антонов Ан-124 Руслан; Ukrainian: Ан-124 Руслан, lit. 'Ruslan (meaning 'lion')'; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the world's second heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft, behind the destroyed one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya (an enlarged derivat...

Such a beast. Here is a Ukrainian Ruslan UR-82072 on approach to Eindhoven Airport.

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