Asian stocks began the year on a dour note on Thursday as they struggled for traction after a jittery close to 2024, while ...

An explosion involving an An-72 aircraft occurred at Ostafyevo Airport near Moscow on December 12. The information was ...

Ukraine's military intelligence service said a military transport aircraft had exploded at an airfield near Moscow but did ...

A Russian An-72 transport plane prepares to take off at the Russian military base of Hmeimim, located southeast of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria, on September 26, 2019.

The Kyiv Independent could not verify these claims. The An-72 is a Soviet transport aircraft, developed by Antonov, Ukraine's largest aircraft manufacturing company. The plane is used mainly by the ...

twin-turboprop transport aircraft and an Antonov An-72 (NATO: Coaler) jet-powered Soviet-era transport aircraft. Similarly, the Maxar imagery of the Tartus also shows dozens of vehicles and other ...

Russia's defence minister said on Monday that Moscow must be ready to fight the NATO military alliance in Europe in the next decade, as President Vladimir Putin said he believed the Ukraine war ...

The imagery further shows at least one Syrian Il-76 and another Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft along with smaller An-72 Coaler and An-26 Curl transporters as well as a Su-35 fighter plane, according to the ...

At the time, the Soviet Air Force had around 50 Antonov An-22 turboprops, which were commonly deployed in tactical roles. So, there was a desire for larger aircraft with a big increase in payload ...