China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft - esp. Y-20/YY-20

[HailingTX20]

Y-20B at night:

 

[iBBz]

Are there any Y-20B photos showing thrust reversers in action?

 

[by78]

Night mission.

 

[by78]

Images of the Y-9 production line + cargo hold.

 

[Blitzo]

Images of the Y-9 production line + cargo hold.

Being able to confirm that standard Y-9s come with a bathroom and a small galley is unironically pretty useful to know.

 

[Deino]

Images of the Y-9 production line + cargo hold.

Do you have any info if this is recent footage?

My problem actually is, where are all these Y-9 in service? We know they are assigned to two ARs within the 4th TD and several are operational within dedicated transport units in each TC, but if production is running since years at that level shown above, there must be more!

 

[by78]

Do you have any info if this is recent footage?

My problem actually is, where are all these Y-9 in service? We know they are assigned to two ARs within the 4th TD and several are operational within dedicated transport units in each TC, but if production is running since years at that level shown above, there must be more!

The first image may not be recent. Chinese TV programs are notorious for recycling old footage.

 

[sunnymaxi]

Do you have any info if this is recent footage?

My problem actually is, where are all these Y-9 in service? We know they are assigned to two ARs within the 4th TD and several are operational within dedicated transport units in each TC, but if production is running since years at that level shown above, there must be more!

from 2022..

Y-9 production line.

More images of Y-9 production facility.

 

[tphuang]

Being able to confirm that standard Y-9s come with a bathroom and a small galley is unironically pretty useful to know.

it's always interesting to see that military transport comes with bathroom and galley that look exactly like the civilian airliners. I was amused at least

Do you have any info if this is recent footage?

My problem actually is, where are all these Y-9 in service? We know they are assigned to two ARs within the 4th TD and several are operational within dedicated transport units in each TC, but if production is running since years at that level shown above, there must be more!

I just assume they are not going to use it for more transport unit.

 

[HighGround]

THIS!!!

During my early days of researching I had to resort to using the Google search bar for short keywords like so: [subject] site:www.sinodefenceforum.com

The lack of a semi-decent search function within this forum is understandably problematic to a lot of newcomers and especially now that there's an increased influx of them.

Not too sure about using an LLM though.

It's problematic for people trying to look for things and trying to read old threads...