Confirmed: the Antonov An-225 has been destroyed

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New images finally confirm that the Antonov An-225 has been destroyed during current war between Russia and Ukraine. Photos international press

With all due respect to the human losses that the war between Ukraine and Russia they are leaving, I want to share the sad and unfortunate news for the history of aviation, the destruction of the cargo plane biggest in the world.

In an unprecedented military event for current times, the Russian army in multiple attacks on Antonov Airport (THERE IT IS: GML, OACI: UKKM) has destroyed the Antonov An-225, this having been the only one built in its entirety of its kind.

The information was finally confirmed with high quality and fidelity images shared by the media from the conflict zone, directly at Antonov's base of operations.

The history of the Antonov An-225

The Antonov An-225 «Mriya» made its first flight on 21 from December to 1988 as a heavy cargo plane that is capable of transporting the Burán space shuttle.

Ukrainian-made during the Soviet Union, the Mriya which in Spanish means dream, it took to his credit several historical records as the heaviest and longest airplane in the world, second only in size to the Stratolouch.

Carrying out twenty missions a year, it was the number one aircraft for oversized cargo, whose base design was the An-124, with an approximate cost of lease of more than $35 one thousand dollars, made its operational and economic feasibility not prosper with the construction of more aircraft of this type (despite the fact that a semi-finished fuselage was assembled in the 2016).

It is therefore, that with the destruction of this historic plane, world aviation loses at the hands of war, a one-of-a-kind aircraft, irreplaceable and that the entire airline industry plus Avgeek we will miss seeing in photos, noticias y espectaculares videos de la «bestia de los cielos».

The obvious is confirmed

Such an important objective strategically speaking for Ukraine and due to its size it was very difficult for it to have come out intact from endless attacks and missiles that were fired by Russian troops at Antonov Airport..

Despite the fact that Antonov on his official Twitter account repeatedly asked everyone to wait for his official confirmation, the lack of credible, high-quality images left many hopeful that the aircraft is still in repairable condition.

The new images confirm what was the safest, and although Antonov has not given his technical analysis of the state of the plane yet, what was shown by the press in the place is the confirmation that this plane will not fly again and the dream will go down in history.

Will an Antonov An-225 be built again?

The time and budget that these tasks would imply will mark the future or not of a new largest aircraft in the world, so there is nothing left to wait and even more, hope that the current conflict does not escalate to higher levels of war.

Much will also depend on the condition of the secondary fuselage that was advanced between a 60% and 70% of your assembly.

Why didn't you take him out of the Ukraine?

The plane had completed its last mission days before before entering scheduled maintenance, Therefore, it was not in flight conditions and we must add the factor that no one expected such a rapid Russian military escalation and of the magnitude presented..

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