Wings of Russia: Military Cargo Planes. Winged Heavy-weight Lifters. (Episode 17 of 18)

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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This is a documentary of "Wings of Russia" studio about history of development of Russian Aviation. It contains a lot of unique video footage. The documentary speaks about creation and development of fighters, bombers, helicopters, reconnaissance planes, hydro-planes, planes of civilian Aviation and also about sport and training Aviation, in the USSR and Russia.

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Science & Technology

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• military
• aviation
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• AF
• cargo
• strategic
• lift
• forces
• flying
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• jet
• airplane
• russia
• aircraft
• planes
• army
• moscow
• pilot
• jets

[MingGuoLi]

So, what's the advantage the An-70 hold over Il-76?

[BitnikGr]

@MingGuoLi AN-70 has higher and wider cargo compartment. Despite it is shorter in length, AN-70 has 400m^3 volume vs 320 of IL-76.

They have same price and same payload. AN-70 can transfer 98% of vehicles and weapon systems which are in Russian Army. IL-76 can transfer only 65% of them.

Cruise speed is almost the same. 750km/h and 760km/h accordingly.

But AN-70 is much more fuel efficient with maximum payload.

Also AN-70 has STOL capability. IL-76 hasn't.

[periesicsd]

@BitnikGr O, well, enough of my rant! It felt good, tho! Greets, and thanks from Belgium!

[BitnikGr]

@periesicsd You are welcome and thank you for sharing your opinion.

Greetings from Greece.

[devastatermir372]

@BitnikGr

WHEN I 1ST THOUGHT ABOUT WATCHING THIS VID,I THOUGHT IT TO BE A BIT BORING BUT, IN REALITY ITS THE MOST RELAXING & INFORMATIVE VID I HAVE EVER SEEN............. GR8 VID..... A LOT OF THNX FROM PAKISTAN

[BitnikGr]

@devastatermir372 You are welcome. Watch all of them... :)

[XosrovTheGreat]

nice series, tnx for upload

[adabarong]

That was really interesting, lots of knowledge !!! thanks

[SuperChadiX]

this makes me sleepy but i want to watch it till the end.....

[RedGunBullets]

great docu

[thechopsie]

So much respect. Doubt our kids of today would go head long into this. Don't want to get into the politics. But...

[igorchillipeppers123]

@Berkut164 pois é né