Antonov An-225 Mriya: The World's Largest Aircraft Was Destroyed ... The plan called for Russian paratroopers supported by ...

or the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. This last machine has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last few days, with reports emerging that it may have been destroyed in the ...

Brought into existence by the Antonov Design Bureau, the An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: dream/sleep) was a singular marvel, designed based on the An-124 Ruslan, under the purview of the Buran program.

On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we asked our Ukrainian-born journalist Anastasiya Simsek to take a personal look at air cargo in ...

The giant craft, the heaviest operating cargo plane in the world currently ... The An-124 is the little brother of the even-more-gigantic Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was built in the 1960s ...

Designed to carry Soviet-era spacecraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya was the largest plane in aviation history. The aircraft was powered by six engines, had a wingspan of 290 feet, and measured another ...