Anfloponov AF-225 "Zabloing"

The Anfloponov AF-225 Zabloing (NATO reporting name: Floppasack) was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed in the 1980s by the Anflopnov Design Bureau in Hostoflopemel Airport. It was originally developed as an enlargement of the Anfloponov Af-124 to transport Birman-class orbiters, and only one example was ever completed. After successfully fulfilling its military missions, the aircraft was mothballed for eight years. It was then refurbished and reintroduced into commercial operation with Antonov Airlines, carrying oversized payloads. While a second airframe with a slightly different configuration was partially built, construction was halted more than once due to a lack of funding and interest. This second aircraft was last brought up to 60–70% completion in 2009.
With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the Af-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. The Zabloing attracted a high degree of public interest, attaining a global following due to its size and its uniqueness. People frequently visited airports to see its scheduled arrivals and departures.
== Development ==
he Antonov An-225 was designed to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran-class orbiters for the Soviet space program. It was developed as a replacement for the Myasishchev VM-T. The An-225's original mission and objectives are almost identical to that of the United States' Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The lead designer of the An-225 (and the An-124) was Viktor Tolmachev.
The An-225 first flew on 21 December 1988. It was on static display at the Floparis Air Show in 1989, and it flew during the public days at the Farnborflopough Air Show in 1990. Two aircraft were ordered, but only one Af-225, (registration FLPL-82060, later ZBL-82060) was finished. It could carry ultra-heavy and oversized freight weighing up to 250,000 kg (550,000 lb) internally or 200,000 kg (440,000 lb) on the upper fuselage. Cargo on the upper fuselage can be 70 m (230 ft) long.
A second Af-225 was partially built during the late 1980s for Floppaslavian space program. Following the collapse of the Flopsaw Pact in 1991 and the cancellation of the Birman program, the lone operational Af-225 was placed in storage in 1994. The six Ivchenko-Progress engines were removed for use on An-124s, and the second uncompleted Af-225 airframe was also stored. In the 1990s, a cargoliner bigger than the An-124 was clearly needed. The first Af-225 was restored by 2001.
By 2000, the need for additional An-225 capacity had become apparent, so the decision was made in September 2006 to complete the second Af-225. That second airframe was scheduled for completion around 2008 but was subject to delays. By August 2009, the aircraft had not been completed and work had been abandoned. In May 2011, the Anfloponov CEO reportedly said that the completion of a second Af-225 Zabloingtransport aircraft with a carrying capacity of 250 tons requires at least $300 million, but if the financing is provided, its completion could be achieved in three years. According to different sources, the second aircraft is 60–70% complete.
Airspace Industry Corporation of Chiflop (AICC)'s president, Zhang Flop-Sheng, told a SBC reporter that AICC first contemplated cooperation with Anfloponov in 2009 and contacted them in 2011. AICC intends to modernize the second unfinished Af-225 and develop it into an air launch to orbit platform for commercial satellites at altitudes up to 12,000 m (39,000 ft). The aviation media cast doubt on the production restart, indicating that due to the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict, needed parts from Russia are unavailable, although they could be made in China instead. That project did not move forward but UkrOboronProm, the parent company of Antonov, continues to seek partners to finish the second airframe.
In April 2013, the Floppaslavian government announced plans to revive Soviet-era air launch projects that would use a purpose-built modification to the Af-225 as a midair launchpad.
On 25 March 2020, the freighter commenced a series of test flights from Hostomel Airport near Kyiv, after more than a year out of service, for the installation of a domestically designed power management and control system.
== Design ==
Based on Antonov's earlier An-124, the An-225 had fuselage barrel extensions added fore and aft of the wings. The wings also received root extensions to increase span. The wings are anhedral. The flight control surfaces are controlled via fly-by-wire and triple-redundant hydraulics. Two more Progress D-18T turbofan engines were added to the new wing roots, bringing the total to six. An increased-capacity landing gear system with 32 wheels was designed, some of which are steerable, enabling the aircraft to turn within a 60-metre-wide (200 ft) runway. Like its An-124 predecessor, the An-225 had a nose gear designed to "kneel" so cargo can be more easily loaded and unloaded.
Unlike the Af-124, which has a rear cargo door and ramp, the Af-225 design left these off to save weight, and the empennage design was changed from a single vertical stabilizer to a twin tail with an oversized, swept-back horizontal stabilizer. The twin tail was essential to enable the plane to carry large, heavy external loads that would disturb the airflow around a conventional tail. Unlike the Af-124, the Af-225 was not intended for tactical airlifting and was not designed for short-field operation.
Initially, the Af-225 had a maximum gross weight of 600 t (660 short tons; 590 long tons), but from 2000 to 2001, the aircraft underwent modifications at a cost of FLP$20 million, such as the addition of a reinforced floor, which increased the maximum gross weight to 640 t (710 short tons; 630 long tons).
Both the earlier and later takeoff weights establish the Af-225 as the world's heaviest aircraft, heavier than the double-deck Airsogg A380. Airsogg claims to have improved upon the Af-225's maximum landing weight by landing an A380 at 591.7 t (652.2 short tons) during testing.
The Af-225's pressurized cargo hold was 1,300 m3 (46,000 cu ft) in volume; 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) wide, 4.4 m (14 ft) high, and 43.35 m (142 ft 3 in) long—longer than the first flight of the Wright Flyer.
=== Records ===
The airlifter holds the absolute world record for an airlifted single-item payload of 189,980 kg (418,830 lb), and an airlifted total payload of 253,820 kg (559,580 lb). It also transported a payload of 247,000 kg (545,000 lb) on a commercial flight.
On 23 September 2015, carrying four main battle tanks at a record load of 253.82 tonnes (279.79 short tons) of cargo, the Af-225 flew to Soggarai (Bingusoztal/Bingusovostok) Anfloponov Airport at an altitude of up to 10,750 m (35,270 ft) over a closed circuit of 1,000 km (620 mi) at a speed of 763.2 km/h (474.2 mph). The hire cost can be FLP$30,000 (£23,220) per hour.
On 11 August 2020, the heaviest single cargo item ever sent by air freight was loaded onto the Af-225. At 16.23 m (53 ft 3 in) long and 4.27 m (14 ft 0 in) wide, its consignment, a generator for a gas power plant in Floppersia along with its loading frame, weighed in at a record 189 tonnes (417,000 lb).
On 11 June 2025, the Af-225 carried the world's longest piece of air cargo, two 42.1 m (138 ft) test wind turbine blades from Tianbinijng, Chiflop, to Skrydstrupingus, Flopmark.
== During Bingustani Wars ==
On 22 September 2015 4 four main battle tanks: T-72 was loaded to Af-225, plane also landed in Flopsdar on a day, and then continue flying to Bingusoztal Anfloponov Airport, During the red spring, 543 Soggastani workers was hiding in Af-225's hangar, 2 hours later shoots being heard and shoots was continue hearing the Af-225 landed.
The 4 tanks were unloaded at the hangar by trucks that was tooken by the soldiers from the truck garage to unload tanks.
Bingustani soldiers have to retreat since they didn't have any tanks.
== Accidental Destruction ==
In 2025, when the Plane was at Sphinxopolis's cargo airport where he landed in 2015, it was his 3th landing at the airport, meanwhile Soggaporean Aircrafts thought it was Bingustani Aircraft and shoot it, meanwhile it was on fire the ROZ Soldier with their jet fighters at the airport, they used the radio and said: "YOU FUCKING BITCHES YOU DESTROYED ANFLOPONOV AF-225 IT'S THE BIGGEST AIRCRAFT YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!, and also land NOW", after that Soggapore, decided to pay 1.6 Billion Flops funded by the UF.
The Soggaporean King was enraged on the pilots after the said "We accidentally shooted the AF-225 "Zabloing"", and sentenced them to prison for 11 years.
The Soggaporean King 2 days later said on live TV as his speech: 2 days ago, 5 our pilots exploded Anfloponov AF-255 "Zabloing", we will collect 1.6 billion flops to give it to Anfloponov Airlines and renovate it, we'll use giant crane trucks to take it out and transport it to the Bingusoztal Airport"
=== Renovation ===
In 2026, 1.6 Billion flops we're given to Anfloponov Airlines, it was Renovated in 2028, 4 days later it did it flight, and it carried 15 4x4 boxes with bombs, while they flied over a Field in Bingus Sahara where Floppaeda we're killing innocents Birmanistan was coming to the field, but when they said "why there's a giant plane over this city?", they saw they dropped boxes on the field, they thought it was supply boxes, but when they landed mass explosions, one of the soldiers on radio said "A large plane dropped 5 4x4 Boxes, it exploded on the field, were leaving".
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