{"id":158388,"date":"2024-12-16T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/soviet-ilyushin-antonov-transports-in-production\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:00:15","slug":"are-any-legacy-soviet-ilyushin-or-antonov-transports-still-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=158388","title":{"rendered":"Are Any Legacy Soviet Ilyushin Or Antonov Transports Still In Production?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War, the USSR was one of the great producers of military transport aircraft. The Soviet Union even made the world&#8217;s largest military transports (the Antonov             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258183\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>An-225<\/span><\/span> Mriya and the An-124 Ruslan &#8211; both         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029662\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-defense-missions-c-5m-super-galaxy\/\" >larger than the US C-5M Galaxy<\/a><\/span>). Large military transports were produced by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59757\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/antonov\/\"  >Antonov<\/a><\/span> (based in the Ukrainian SSR) and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256293\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ilyushin\/\"  >Ilyushin<\/a><\/span> (based in the Russian SSR). But are any of these military transports still in production today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illushyin Il-76 appears to be the only large Soviet-era military transport aircraft in production today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,596,120,4760,1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-antonov","category-europe","category-illuyshin","category-soviet-planes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158389,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158388\/revisions\/158389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}