Antonov transporting US Apaches
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Nowt new in using the AN's. In the run up to GW1 Gutersloh had an AN124 pop in by to pick up a few bits and pieces. Also had 3 x IL76's operating out of Gut for a few days. And this was less than 18 months after the redesign of the Berlin Wall. Mind you things were rather busy then
Nothing new in outsourcing transportation contracts. Ukranian and Russian airlift companies have been very busy over the years on military contracts.
The sole Ukranian operated An-225 has also been used for military contracts to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/...ian_jets26735/
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-isaf-armour2.htm
http://www.nato.int/issues/strategic...air/index.html
http://www.volga-dnepr.com/eng/press...eases/?id=4523
http://www.mfa.gov.ua/usa/en/publica...tent/12550.htm
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TJ
The sole Ukranian operated An-225 has also been used for military contracts to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/...ian_jets26735/
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-isaf-armour2.htm
http://www.nato.int/issues/strategic...air/index.html
http://www.volga-dnepr.com/eng/press...eases/?id=4523
http://www.mfa.gov.ua/usa/en/publica...tent/12550.htm
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TJ
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Nowt new in using the AN's. In the run up to GW1 Gutersloh had an AN124 pop in by to pick up a few bits and pieces. Also had 3 x IL76's operating out of Gut for a few days. And this was less than 18 months after the redesign of the Berlin Wall. Mind you things were rather busy then
By the way, the An 124 was bloody tight getting around the taxiways at Gut. The 5188 ft runway meant that it didn't have far to go before refuelling either.
During the build up to the 'invasion' of Kosovo the UAE moved a fair number of their choppers to Macedonski coutesy of the Antonov Design Bureau.
mr fish wrote
Moldovan MiG-29 Fulcrum B being loaded onto a C-17 during 1997.
http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/ne...ewsphotoid=904
TJ
all the examples posted so far seem a bit one way, any trade from the other direction, a c5 with a mig on board would look weird maybe?
http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/ne...ewsphotoid=904
TJ