Massive Ukrainian Cargo Plane Lands at Yokota Airbase

This was likely quite a site for the personnel at Yokota Airbase outside of Tokyo to see:

U.S. airmen watch an An-124 Antonov arrive at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes)

The world’s largest production transport airplane, painted in Ukrainian blue and yellow, touched down at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo early Wednesday.

The chartered AN-124 Antonov, also called a Ruslan, carried oversized equipment for a new heat and power plant at Yokota from Dallas, according to an email April 7 from 374th Airlift Wing spokesman 1st Lt. Danny Rangel. The statement was embargoed until the plane touched down.

The Antonov dwarfed Air Force C-130J Super Hercules cargo planes and CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft as it taxied onto a ramp beside Yokota’s cargo terminal. It was the same spot where airmen on March 16 loaded a 38-ton shipment of Ukraine-bound nonlethal military supplies onto a C-17 Globemaster III.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Hopefully, they fill it full of weapons and send it back to Ukraine.

Yeah yeah… I know… Ukraine was always going to lose this war… and a plane full of weapons won’t change that… but if we don’t supply Western Puppet Zelensky to drag this out to the last Ukrainian, they will still have some infrastructure left and they might export some food this year.

We cannot let this end with Ukraine still being a functional country and it is really better the Arab world experiences a little hunger again to see if they want to try Arab Spring II.

So I stand with Ukraine on this one.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
2 years ago

Back the Zelenskyy/Biden crime syndicate over the Putin Crime syndicate….Mafia Wars.

setnaffa
2 years ago

Ukraine needs more warriors?

Send the Vindman twins back.

Liz
Liz
2 years ago

Wonder why Vindman turned down that Defense Minister position.
No conflict of interest there.

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