The Antonov AN-225 Mriya wasn’t just an aircraft,it was a symbol of unmatched engineering ambition. Built in the 1980s by the Soviet Union to transport the massive Buran space shuttle and parts of the ...

Summary and Key Points: In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, was destroyed during a failed Russian raid ...

The Antonov An-225, originally developed specifically to transport the Buran spaceplane, was an enlargement of the successful Antonov An-124.

During the planning stage, Antonov envisioned three variants for the An-225. The first one was the An-224, which was designed for the Buran and was eventually renamed the An-225.

The An-225 'Mriya' Jet was one of the largest planes ever and was created by Ukraine before eventually being destroyed, but the country is now rebuilding it.

The largest plane ever built held its title for nearly 40 years. Now, 35 years after it took its first flight, we look back on the iconic aircraft, the Antonov AN-225 Mriya. The massive plane was ...

Antonov An-225: the largest aircraft in the world that was destroyed in the Ukraine war Produced in the late 1980s, the An-225 was developed by present-day Ukraine to support the Soviet space program, ...

A super heavy transporter! A soviet era pride! An enlargement of the Antonov An-124. Codenamed the Cossack, the Antonov An-225 is the world's heaviest active aircraft.

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over pilot Yevhen Bashynsky. Ukraine says it will rebuild the giant aircraft after it was destroyed as Russia’s full-scale invasion ...

It was designed to carry the Buran spacecraft -- the Soviet Union's answer to NASA's Space Shuttle -- on its back. But after Ukraine's independence, Antonov refurbished the plane several times.