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And that's the problem. The state of Ukraine is just few months away from going bust. If Ukraine falls, EU will have big problems.
Why would Ukraine defaulting cause big problems for the EU?
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that's the problem, Antonov is based in Kyiv, Ukraine
And that's the problem. The state of Ukraine is just few months away from going bust. If Ukraine falls, EU will have big problems.
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And that's the problem. The state of Ukraine is just few months away from going bust. If Ukraine falls, EU will have big problems.
Why would Ukraine defaulting cause big problems for the EU?
If Ukraine falls, Russian tanks will be withing zero kilometres from EU border, and four states who are only relatively recent NATO members, without much weight in the NATO block.
Add to these that all four of those states are far from being 100% reliable, with clepto-political elites who are very similar to ones who switched sides to Russia in the Ukraine conflict.
The nightmare scenarios is of course if Poland gives in. Then, you will only have 300-500km of very flat land, and good roads in between them, and Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Nuremberg, Munich, and ability to cut off the Eastern route around alps.
As a political stunt, Polish government has chartered this plane to deliver medical supplies to Poland. What a sight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQPcMcGVZ8 However, the costs were insane - around $3 million . Transporting the same amount of cargo with 777 would cost about $1 milion. But the political stunt was priceless.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
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Why would Ukraine defaulting cause big problems for the EU?
Presumably because that would push them into the hands of Russia (whether they want it or not).
EDIT: downvoters/flaggers: are you censoring the narrative because it doesn't jive with what you've been told, or because you simply cannot tolerate a viewpoint that is counter to the one you have subsumed through authoritarian contact? Because, on the ground, things may be very different to what you've been told through the fog of war, which is being weaponised on this topic. Take that into consideration.
"...20 tons of fuel per hour..." holy cow. Pretty impressive statistics all around, apparently the A380 uses closer to 12.5 tons per hour to put it in perspective.
Pretty impressive given that: Type MTOW [kg] ICAO category Antonov An-225 640,000 Heavy Airbus A380-800 575,000 Super and that 225 is made with much less than an ideal aerodynamics, heavy frame, 6 thrust reversers, and oversized control surfaces to accommodate external cargo. Its 6 engines are also prehistoric. D-18T was made with a much more focus on getting the highest take off thrust over cruise speed performance.…
As a political stunt, Polish government has chartered this plane to deliver medical supplies to Poland. What a sight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQPcMcGVZ8 However, the costs were insane - around $3 million . Transporting the same amount of cargo with 777 would cost about $1 milion. But the political stunt was priceless.
1) The volume. The masks and other protective gear is volume-demanding cargo, since the overall density including packing (boxes) is low. The Boeing 777 Freighter (777F) has 518m3 of cargo volume on main deck [1], An-225 has 1200m3 [2], so the price per 1m3 of volume is 1930$ and 2500$ respectively (ratio 1.3).
2) The demand and the quarantine itself. During March-April demand on masks was enormous, everyone tried to buy them, some countries even tried to take over deliveries for other ones. China and many other countries were not accepting flights, so arranging even a single flight was challenging (thats why An-225 was flying through Almaty city that many times when making China-Europe routes, all other airports simply didn't accept any planes for transit and refueling). As a result, one huge plane was much more beneficial than 2-3 smaller ones.
[1] https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_...
[2] https://www.antonov-airlines.com/our-fleet/an-225
Edit: correcting An-225 cargo volume from 1100m3 to 1200m3 using data from the official website.
Whatever its future, that is one monster plane I would love to see fly. Given the 747 has no future now and even the A380 is not that popular and might vanish, we may never see such a huge plane again.
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Antonov is a Ukrainian state enterprise, no problem for Russia to see them go under.
By the way, is there any Russian made cargo aircraft?