{"id":184035,"date":"2012-08-26T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/26\/russia-to-order-an-70-transports\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:32:00","slug":"russia-to-order-an-70-transports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/26\/russia-to-order-an-70-transports\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Order AN-70 Transports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/xR9gT.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"360\" \/>The Russian Air Force is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense-aerospace.com\/article-view\/release\/137752\/russia%2C-ukraine-team-to-produce-an_70-airlifter.html\">planning to order 60 of the transports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Ukrainian company Antonov together with Russian United Aircraft Corporation will participate in manufacturing Antonov An-70 transport airplanes. Russian defense ministry already placed an order for 60 such machines, USD 67 million apiece. Developed since 1978, An-70 can carry heavier cargo than existing transport planes and land on ill-equipped runways.<\/p>\n<p>An-70 can carry 300 troopers, or 200 injured persons, or 47 tons of freight. Comparably, the closest alternative to An-70 \u2013 the Airbus A400M Atlas &#8211; can carry 37 tons of cargo. Market price of the Spanish A400M is EUR 145 million, whereas the Ukrainian An-70 costs less than USD 70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Planes An-70 will be produced at JSC Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Production Association in Kazan, Russia. The plane can fly at a speed of 780 kilometers per hour at distances of up to 7,800 kilometers. An-70 is capable of landing on 600-800 meter runways with earth surfaces. Onboard navigation equipment allows the plane to land and takeoff at airports lacking special earth-based equipment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is interesting, and not just because it represents a rapprochement between Russian and Ukrainian defense industry.<\/p>\n<p>By almost every metric (except for noise where, the contra rotating props create a racket), it equals the A400M, and if this order is sufficient to make the production line viable, it could be a major headache for EADS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Air Force is planning to order 60 of the transports: Ukrainian company Antonov together with Russian United Aircraft Corporation will participate in manufacturing Antonov An-70 transport airplanes. Russian defense ministry already placed an order for 60 such machines, USD 67 million apiece. Developed since 1978, An-70 can carry heavier cargo than existing transport &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1040,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-former-soviet-union","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}