If you are paying attention to Ukraine conflict this type of aircraft are becoming useless for Russia. It is always North to South in the news but not South to North.C295 is an aircraft designed and built by CASA in Spain. Part of Airbus consortium. It is a good aircraft.
This is a major failure for the Russian aerospace industry which has persistently failed to deliver a similar aircraft. First it was the failure of the An-140T program developed together with Ukraine. Scrapped after the Russian Annexation of Crimea and then it was the utter failure of the Russians by themselves with the Il-112 program. Which caused the death of the test pilots.
They need An-124/IL-476 for high loaded performance in hot weather for Mideast connectivity to nearly all factories of Russia and bases. and to support such scale of distributed air defense network with multiple launch points for drones and attack choppers they need helicopters. Its 4 external fuel tanks per Ka-52/Mi-28NM. To put full operation theatre near combat zone they going with Mi-26. this is the price for gaining Soft Power.
Bandage-winged machines: the army will receive operating rooms based on the Mi-26
According to sources, the new containers were developed based on experience gained from conducting a special military operation.


