Il-76/476 Military Transports

TMA1 wrote:Notice limb did not like the comment above. Just after posting doom porn. Note a few others popped up a few days back seemingly in coordination with those drone strikes complaining, a couple calling for Putin's removal for it at the same time??
Bizarre. I'm telling you some here actually want the overthrow of Russia by the neocon/neolib factions.

Is it really a surprise? $800 Billion can buy you a lot of paid online trolls.

It is ironic that they openly talk about the funding they spend on propaganda but they accuse any independent thinker on the internet that does not agree with their obvious BS of being a paid troll... hilarious.

I personally think the An-12 was widely used and very popular and a replacement type can be two aircraft with slightly different performance and dimensions.

if need be, they could buy some Y-9s from China as a stopgap measure, & concentrate on the IL-476 production.
If they had more time & $, I'm sure some IL-476 variants would have wider & longer fuselage as an added value, which also would compete better with Western aircraft.
Perhaps such versions will eventuially appear before IL-106 design is finalized, not to mention the Slon, An-124 replacement.

TMA1 wrote:Notice limb did not like the comment above. Just after posting doom porn. Note a few others popped up a few days back seemingly in coordination with those drone strikes complaining, a couple calling for Putin's removal for it at the same time??
Bizarre. I'm telling you some here actually want the overthrow of Russia by the neocon/neolib factions.

"Plans" and "built" aren't the same thing. Also each Il-76 needs like 10-16months of quality control flight tests.