The Sad Story of Antonov An-225 Mriya

The world’s largest airplane in your mind which plane is it Have you ever thought or wondered? Have you ever witnessed any plane breaking hundreds of records?

The accuracy of your prediction is after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. before or later It may have changed depending on what you were wondering.

Antonov An-225 Mriya was the largest aircraft in the world until February 27, 2022.

Antonov An-225 Mriya, which we can briefly call “Mriya” (“Dream” in Turkish), was produced by the Soviet Union in Soviet Ukraine and manufactured by the company that produced it after the collapse of the USSR. ceded to UkraineIt was the unit’s largest aircraft.

Its length was 84 meters, its height was 18 meters, its wings were 88 meters wide, and the area allocated to the wings was 905 square meters. speed, to 800 kilometers per hour could get out. Mriya was also famous for being durable enough to carry Soviet space shuttles like Buran to the borders of space.

In the video above, from 2:30 onwards, Mriya was told by the Soviets. the famous Buran space shuttle you can see it placed.

The Soviet Union sometimes launched the space shuttles. instead of rockets He used to take it to the skies with big planes like Mriya. The reason for this is, contrary to popular belief, only more practical not only to be more economical it was.

Since it was built to handle all this pressure, there was no problem with the plane. up to 640 tons Due to its ability to carry weight, it was also used as a cargo transport vehicle in addition to space missions.

Having broken more than 240 world records in its lifetime, Mriya was a unique and difficult vehicle to manufacture in aviation. The cargo capacity and number of services it provided was unrivaled.

Some world records Mriya broke:

• in 2001 at the same time 4 battle tanks carried it.
• On two separate flights in 2009, respectively 189 tons And 247 tons carried weight. Among them was a large generator sent to a natural gas cycle power plant in Armenia.
• By transplanting a very long windmill blade from China to Denmark in 2010, the longest cargo carried it.
• In 2012, the world to the highest art gallery hosted.

In addition to all these records locomotives It should also be noted that it regularly transports large vehicles and infrastructure materials, including, and raises humanitarian aid worldwide until 2022.

Let’s talk about what happened on February 27, 2022 and why Mriya is no longer the biggest plane.

The Russian Federation began to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The last functional Antonov An-225 Mriya is also It was in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Mriya, which was used only as a cargo plane, did not constitute any military target and was planned to be rescued by flying abroad a few days later, was taken over by the Russian army on February 27, 2022. During the siege of Kyiv destroyed by bombing.

Although plans to rebuild the aircraft are sometimes on the agenda in Ukraine, rebuilding it is unlikely anytime soon due to all the damage and expense caused by the war.