Re:An-225 destruction image analysis
by freudian123 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:50AM
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It's a shame it got destroyed, a beautiful piece of machinery.
I don't think the company will ever rebuilt it, they already were hesitant on building another AN-225 due to cost concerns.
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A Chinese company has a 70% complete AN 225 hopefully Antonov Airlines can buy it back and finish it.
That's also sitting in a hangar in Ukraine.
couldn’t they license the designs to other companies to manufacture them?
Re:An-225 destruction image analysis
by freudian123 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:21AM
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They could but I don't think it will be financially practical for an Aerospace company to set up a manufacturing line to just to manufacture 1 or 2 of the 225's.
Re:An-225 destruction image analysis
by WesolyKubeczek on Sunday February 27, 2022 @11:58AM
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It would also require quite a revamp, I guess, if anyone wanted to build it anew, those designs are quite dated (I mean, everything inside it)
The design is also very unique due to requirements that were put for it. Pretty much no one put similar equipment, and it's a wonder that it was "un-mothballed" at all and put itself on map again.
It was crucial for both commercial and humanitarian efforts, but no bean counter would approve building such design normally.
> they already were hesitant on building another AN-225 due to cost concerns.
Very astutely note. EU was trying to block Ukrainian defence industry for decades. They had a cargo plane design which beaten Airbus 400 on 33 out 34 tender points on EU defence tender, and still lost.