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

lcloo

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A.Man said:
Video: YY-20 Landing in Afghanistan (Real and Why?)

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This aircraft is coming down in "Afghanistan style landing approach" first used by Americans for quick descend to Kabul airport to reduce risk of shot down by enemy fire. PLAAF adopted this "pointing nose down for quick descend" seeing its advantage.

Location of airport is definitely in China.
 
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lcloo said:
This aircraft is coming down in "Afghanistan style landing approach" first used by Americans for quick descend to Kabul airport to reduce risk of shot down by enemy fire. PLAAF adopted this "pointing nose down for quick descend" seeing its advantage.

Location of airport is definitely in China.
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You are absolutely correct, I missed "style" of the post.
 
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A.Man said:
Video: YY-20 Landing in Afghanistan (Real and Why?)

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lcloo said:
This aircraft is coming down in "Afghanistan style landing approach" first used by Americans for quick descend to Kabul airport to reduce risk of shot down by enemy fire. PLAAF adopted this "pointing nose down for quick descend" seeing its advantage.

Location of airport is definitely in China.
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It's also known as a corkscrew landing.

Supposedly first pioneered in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. The Soviets reportedly employed it at times as well following their 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

Widely used from 2003 until 2011 in Iraq as any reasonable person would imagine. Probably a technique still employed by some USG and contractor birds flying into Kurdistan and Syria these days.
 
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And an update from today according to "Foolsball": "Production of the Y-20 seems to be accelerating and at least 20 can be seen on the tarmac at XAC today."

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It would make sense to mass produce in large numbers since the Y-20 now has its intended engines. Though it is impossible to tell if those are Y-20Bs.

That said, I recall that there were satellite pictures of XAC having similar numbers of Y-20s parked on its grounds before so even Y-20A was produced at a pretty good clip.
 
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It would make sense to mass produce in large numbers since the Y-20 now has its intended engines. Though it is impossible to tell if those are Y-20Bs.

That said, I recall that there were satellite pictures of XAC having similar numbers of Y-20s parked on its grounds before so even Y-20A was produced at a pretty good clip.
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Yes, but IMO these are unlikely still Y-20As since their numbers were getting smaller thru 2024 ... if I remember correctly, then in October only 4 Y/YY-20A vs 11 Y-20B were seen and in June there have been 9 Y/YY-20A vs 6 Y-20B.

So I think it seems at least more likely and reasonable to assume, until the end of 2024 the final Y/YY-20As were delivered or are due to be so and production of the Y-20B was ramped up.
 
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It would make sense to mass produce in large numbers since the Y-20 now has its intended engines. Though it is impossible to tell if those are Y-20Bs.
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WS-20 is in full scale production.. they have pulsating assembly line means this process greatly reduced assembly time of single machine.

and Y-20A doesn't make sense now.. so mostly all these Y-20s are equipped with WS-20 engines.
 
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