An 800-ton transport aircraft.
Liu Guofu was startled by the figure. The largest transport aircraft currently in existence is the An-225 Mriya, developed by the Antonov Design Bureau of the former Soviet Union. It has a fuselage length of 84 meters, a wingspan of 88.4 meters, and a height of 18.2 meters. It boasts a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tons, a maximum cargo capacity of 250 tons, and can carry up to 200 tons on top of its fuselage.
Increasing the payload by 400 tons alone would halve transport times. Even more daunting is the potential for total transport capacity, enabling the kind of heavy industrial machinery deployment Qi Tongwei had envisioned.
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