Kazakhstan has received its second Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft, completing a two-plane order placed in 2021, the country's Defence...
Kazakhstan has received its second Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft, completing a two-plane order placed in 2021, the country's Defence Ministry said.
The aircraft flew from Seville, Spain, to Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, and will serve the Air Defence Forces. The first A400M arrived in December 2024, and the pair gives Kazakhstan its own heavy airlift for the first time: moving troops, equipment and humanitarian cargo without chartering foreign planes.
For a country that spans Central Asia's steppe and sends troops on international peacekeeping missions, two big airlifters change what is possible in a crisis, from disaster relief at home to evacuations abroad. The limit is scale: two aircraft can do a lot, but they cannot be everywhere at once.
#Kazakhstan