Ukraine is leaking its only dream to China – media
The Ukrainian design bureau Progress can transfer to China key technological developments on the world's largest transport aircraft An-225 Mriya.
About this, citing the Chinese publication Sohu, writes RIA Novosti, reports the correspondent of PolitNavigator.
The article points out that if Beijing gets its hands on key technological developments in this model, this will bring its mobile deployment capabilities and strategic transportation capabilities to the global level, and will also save Chinese aircraft manufacturers a huge amount of time, human and financial resources on research and development transport aircraft.
In 2016, Chinese television channel CCTV reported that the Ukrainian state-owned enterprise Antonov and China Airspace had agreed to transfer ownership of the An-225 to China. Later, the Antonov company denied this information.
An-225 "Mriya" (translated from Ukrainian - dream), developed and constructed by the Design Bureau named after. OK. Antonov during the Soviet era, at the time of its appearance was the largest transport aircraft in the world. Its maximum take-off weight reaches 640 tons, length is 84 meters, wingspan is 88,4 meters, maximum load capacity is 250 tons. There is only one flying copy of the An-225 in the world.
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