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

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ying1978

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• Wednesday at 1:03 PM

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Range is the limiting factor here. Even with double the thrust and payload, the Y-20 does not have substantially more range than the H-6K/N. The classical transport airframe simply creates too much drag.

 

siegecrossbow

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• Wednesday at 6:24 PM

• #7,052

Gone to Egypt again… For something…

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by78

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• Thursday at 2:28 AM

• #7,053

YY-20 refueling Egyptian Mig-29s.

 

by78

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• Friday at 9:36 PM

• #7,054

This may or may not be anything significant. AVIC Shaanxi has formed task forces to tackle a new fly-by-wire system and a new flight navigation system. It's not clear if these are related to basic R&D or are specific to a new/evolved design.

 

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ACuriousPLAFan

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• Yesterday at 6:31 AM

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A Y-20B MRTT with number 20345.

 

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AndrewJ

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• Yesterday at 7:29 AM

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Troops do airdrop practices at night from Y-20...

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huitong

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• Yesterday at 10:03 AM

• #7,057

ACuriousPLAFan said:

A Y-20B MRTT with number 20345.

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The last digit is not clear. It could be 5, 6, 8 or 9.

 

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ACuriousPLAFan

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• Yesterday at 11:06 AM

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huitong said:

The last digit is not clear. It could be 5, 6, 8 or 9.

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That number was provided by @太湖军I名 on Weibo. I just copy-pasted that number here.

 

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huitong

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• Yesterday at 11:33 AM

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ACuriousPLAFan said:

That number was provided by @太湖军I名 on Weibo. I just copy-pasted that number here.

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The original picture was posted on May 11 on Weibo. I saw it a few days ago but just couldn’t figure out the last digit!

 

tankphobia

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• Yesterday at 11:22 PM

• #7,060

bebops said:

can china convert this into a bomber similar to B52? I realized this can carry 66 max ton so that means it can carry alot of hypersonic missiles.

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I just saw this on Reddit, anyone have the original source? So the Y-20 is at least capable of dropping a missile off the back of the cargo hold.