Ukraine’s An-124 Ruslan, the world’s largest military air transport, has flown a German tank and a combat vehicle halfway around the planet
Wednesday, September 5, 2018


Ukraine’s An-124 Ruslan, the world’s largest military air transport, has flown a German tank and a combat vehicle halfway around the planet — 15,500 km from southern Germany to southern Australia. Antonov’s cargo airline flew a Rheinmetall Lynx KF41 tracked armored fighting vehicle and a Boxer Combat Reconnaissance wheeled vehicle from Munich to Adelaide, Australia. The sight of camouflaged military vehicles rolling out of the Ruslan’s nose, left Adelaide’s Advertiser newspaper searching for adjectives: “A bloated Ukrainian cargo plane disgorged a German fighting vehicle in Adelaide…”