Russian Military Cargo Planes (Documentary)

Morning of 25th of December, 1979. About 300 military cargo planes are gathered at airfields of Middle Asia. Cargo compartments are filled with military vehicles and landing troops. Order arrives and planes, one group after another, are taking off, with strained roaring engines and raising clouds of dust.
What happens there reminds a great migration of people. Such was a picture of entering of Soviet Troops in Afghanistan. Almost 8.000 men, about 900 pieces of military vehicles and thousands of tons of cargo were transported in those first days. All the above was only 2% of the colossal volume of transportations, which were executed by Soviet Cargo Aviation in that war.
Following planes are featuring in this film: TB-1, TB-3, LI-2, U-2, R-5, Yak-6, SHE-2, C-47, IL-12D, Ts-25, Yak-14, Tu-4D, Tu-75, AN-8, AN-10, AN-12, Tu-107, AN-22 "Antey", AN-24T, AN-26, AN-32, AN-72/74, IL-76, AN-124 "Ruslan", AN-225 "Mria", AN-70.

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