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Antonov An-124 arrives in Sri Lanka to transport military helicopter
28 Jun, 2024
An Antonov An-124, one of the largest planes in the world, arrived in Sri Lanka to transport a military helicopter.
The Antonov An-124 was greeted at the Katunayaka Air Force base by the Sri Lanka Air Force.
The An-124 was to transport an MI-17 helicopter from Sri Lanka to Africa.
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan 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 and the Boeing 747-8.
The An-124 remains the largest military transport aircraft in service. (Colombo Gazette)
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