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National Guard of Ukraine has got one more An-72

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January 29, 2015 " Antonov " company finished works of restoration of  aircraft An- 72P and handed it to the customer - the National Guard of Ukraine . The AN-72 is a STOL light military-transport jet . It was designed with engines located under a wing to use such called “ Coanda effect ” that is increase of the lift due to “adhesion” of the exhaust stream to the wing surface. It differs with a highly mechanized wing having a straight wing center section and tapered outer wing panels with a straight trailing edge. It is equipped with the extra effective reversal of the ladle type, a cargo door with a ramp in a tail section of the hermetic fuselage and powerful landing gear with an independent suspension of the main struts that gave pass ability of the off-road vehicle to the AN-72.