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World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by Iwan-Zotow »

bpodgursky wrote: post #168
Iwan-Zotow wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aluminum hangar as a shelter? From artillery?!? Ukrainians just shelled the area, some shells hit hangar with the plane. > my understanding is all these paratroopers were shortly eliminated, so it was a huge waste of life all around Huh?!? How come Russian TV 1st channel were translating from Gostomel, with display of battlefield, broken hangar, burning An-225, ...? Do you think UA army would allow (only) Russian rep…

Yes, the Russians ended up in control of it after the armored column arrived a day or two later.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, so why there are NO REPORTS on 225 while Ukrainians controlled it? They suddenly lost power on their phones? All of them?

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by bpodgursky »

Iwan-Zotow wrote: post #171
bpodgursky wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the Russians ended up in control of it after the armored column arrived a day or two later.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, so why there are NO REPORTS on 225 while Ukrainians controlled it? They suddenly lost power on their phones? All of them?

?

I don't care who fired the shot. The whole war is Russia's fault. Fruit of the poisoned tree.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by ajuc »

mrcheesebreeze wrote: post #115
supreme_berry wrote: post #92

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What is Russian Ukraine? How old are you?

ukraine was pretty much always at least partially owned by russia. One of the first centralized slavic states were the kieven rus. russia and ukraine are tied and its not offensive or wrong to say something like "russian ukraine"

> Ukraine was pretty much always at least partially owned by russia. One of the first centralized slavic states were the kieven rus.

This is wrong on so many levels :)

In times of Kievan Rus Moscow was a far province of forests and marches. Kyiv was the capital.

What you're saying basically: "Italy (Ukraine) was always owned by France (Russia) because Roman Empire (Kievan Rus) was the first centralized state there".

If you insist on applying modern names to historical states it was the other way around - Ukraine "owned" Russia back then.

Also for a few centuries Ukraine was owned by Mongols, Lithuanians and Poles. And Russia was only starting to exist (and wasn't called Russia at first - just Muscovy). But that's besides the point.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by mlac »

post_break wrote: post #145
mlac wrote: post #83

I posted this comment on a less popular thread a few days ago: I had the luck of seeing this plane on approach to IAH airport while driving in Houston. For the first few minutes, it looked like a normal size plane, but felt too low and too slow. Then for the next few minutes, it kept getting bigger and bigger. Then I saw it had 6 engines. And a tail wing that seemed as large as a normal plane’s wingspan. I was lucky…

It's like seeing the Guppy in Houston. It looks like it will just fall out of the sky.

I hadn’t seen that one before! Very cool plane. Even though it was designed long ago, physics doesn’t change…

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by mikl »

> "It will cost over USD3 billion to restore the plane, the restoration shall be time-consuming. Ukraine will make every effort to ensure that the aggressor state pays for these works,"

And if you believe that will happen, I have a bridge to sell you…

There’s a lot of ways this war can go, but that it should somehow end with Russia paying reparations to Ukraine is rather unlikely. And that the Ukrainian government would then spend a fortune of those (badly needed) reparations to build a new An-225 is even less likely.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by Iwan-Zotow »

bpodgursky wrote: post #172
Iwan-Zotow wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, so why there are NO REPORTS on 225 while Ukrainians controlled it? They suddenly lost power on their phones? All of them?

? I don't care who fired the shot. The whole war is Russia's fault. Fruit of the poisoned tree.

> ?

RU: We took Gostomel UA: We shelled airport UA: We kicked them out UA: ... ... RU: We never left Gostomel RU: We have pictures of 225

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by coolspot »

trhway wrote: post #161
coolspot wrote: post #158

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Your pucture is rotated. Here is the place: https://goo.gl/maps/kPKyJVTkDoFyWZD47 It looks like the south part of the hangar was damaged.

Yes, the south part of hangar is damaged. That the missile came from the left (North) on the image i posted is obvious by the pattern of blast effects and the trace in pavement the missile made - it is very clear that the right end of the trace is deeper visually and by the blast effects geometry. The missile pierced the hangar roof - it is thin metal sheet not affecting anything - either where it was microsecond lat…

> That the missile came from the left (North) on the image i posted is obvious by the pattern of blast effects and the trace in pavement the missile made

I don’t know how can you see any patterns or traces on the pavement in this blurry screenshot with resolution probably around 1 pixel per foot.

I can see the damaged hangar, but I for sure can’t see traces on the pavement.

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