The Weekly Debrief: Sanctions Threaten Russia’s Trusty An-2 Biplane Transport

 An-2 

Credit: Sergey Ryabtsev [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ol
Since the late 1940s, Russia’s persevering fleet of Antonov An-2 transports and utility aircraft has survived through the death of Stalin, the international backlash to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, the fall of communism and several generations of progress in global commercial air...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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