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The A380 is $400m per plane coming off a production line. The total programme cost for the A380 is something like $30bn.

There was only one An-225 built, and it was built 34 years ago. Presumably the tooling and much of the manufacturing knowledge is long gone. Antonov as an aircraft manufacturer was barely a going concern before all this - it's fallen a long way from its Soviet heyday. They haven't built a single aircraft since 2016 - and I can't imagine having a battle fought at your main facility helped things.

Making one of something always costs a lot more than making many.