{"id":196415,"date":"2008-04-29T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/russia-and-ukraine-plan-to-restart-an-124-production\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:37:00","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-plan-to-restart-an-124-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/russia-and-ukraine-plan-to-restart-an-124-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine Plan to Restart An-124 Production."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that it is cool.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the forces out there, what they need is strategic airlift capability, not tactical, and honestly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A722744ab-9789-4b5e-9acf-8e67b67fa0a9\">An-124 pretty much owns the field<\/a>, and will for the foreseeable future, as the only potential competitor in terms of size, the A-380 is far more restricted in terms of airports, if just because with its low wing, it will Hoover debris off an austere strip.<\/p>\n<p>As the article notes, Anotov has some real problems, noting the fact that the An-70, which is a great tactical airlifter<sup>*<\/sup>, is languishing, and wondering if Russia\u2019s United Aircraft Corporation might be looking at a corporate takeover.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Once you replace the avionics with western equivalents, and allow one of the large western turbine manufacturers to license produce with higher quality materials to improve reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that it is cool. For most of the forces out there, what they need is strategic airlift capability, not tactical, and honestly, the An-124 pretty much owns the field, and will for the foreseeable future, as the only potential competitor in terms of size, the A-380 is far more restricted in terms of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,984,1040,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-europe","category-former-soviet-union","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196415"}],"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=196415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}