Ukraine introduced a new transport aircraft An-178.

The unique aircraft belongs to a class of medium-sized transport aircraft, and is capable of carrying on its board to 15 tons of payload. The uniqueness of the aircraft is that thanks to the innovative design it is able to sit even on unpaved runways, ideal for areas where there are no good airports, but other than that, the plane can also be dropped from the air and straight.

New An-178 has already become interested in the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and, as stated by aircraft designers, the aircraft surpasses the Russian-Indian analog IL-214 For a number of its parameters.