China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

Deino

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Not sure if the video is legit. But the refueling probe is placed similarily to the F-22s for stealth reasons as an extended refueling probe would compromise stealth.


It surely is not, it is a fan-made video, nothing more and I can only request to check what you post. Please not any random fan-made video.
 

Orthan

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Go to previous page everybody confirm it including Deino here Bltizo comment

Seems to me that Blitzo didnt exactly confim this:


Honestly I don't know what's your exact intention with this ongoing discussion.

final proof is not yet given but IMO we have a very high probability that it is legit.

I want to see that "final proof" instead of probability, even if it is a high one. So far we have only one photo. Probably it is, but we cant still confirm it.
 

Deino

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Seems to me that Blitzo didnt exactly confim this:

I want to see that "final proof" instead of probability, even if it is a high one. So far we have only one photo. Probably it is, but we cant still confirm it.


But isn't this the usual issue we most often have? The maiden flight of the KJ-600 has the same quality, the J-10C and J-20A with WS-10B/C in PLAAF service. These are all unproven things but in summary most likely they are true.
 

Orthan

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But isn't this the usual issue we most often have?

Yes, it is. Probably its true, but i prefer to only really believing it when its confirmed. But thats just me.

Lets wait for more pictures. The addition of WS-20 engines will make Y-20 more powerful and most perhabs more important, prove that china can develop and produce high-bypass engines, even if right now they arent as good as the western/russian ones.
 

Hendrik_2000

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Yes, it is. Probably its true, but i prefer to only really believing it when its confirmed. But thats just me.

Lets wait for more pictures. The addition of WS-20 engines will make Y-20 more powerful and most perhabs more important, prove that china can develop and produce high-bypass engines, even if right now they arent as good as the western/russian ones.

Come on The western analyst/press/media alway repeating this same BS "not as good as western engine" But is it true ? Right now ALL Chinese , J16, J11,J20, Y20, even J10 are going to be equipped with Chinese engine That should show that they have confidence in their engine. I mean they are latecomer when it come to jet engine and having teething problem but that applied to anyone. So give them credit for job well done even under difficult condition of tech embargo.
 

latenlazy

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Seems to me that Blitzo didnt exactly confim this:





I want to see that "final proof" instead of probability, even if it is a high one. So far we have only one photo. Probably it is, but we cant still confirm it.
I do wonder, if you get “final” proof, whether your views about what counts as reliable or unreliable information in PLA watching will change.
 

Figaro

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Yes, it is. Probably its true, but i prefer to only really believing it when its confirmed. But thats just me.

Lets wait for more pictures. The addition of WS-20 engines will make Y-20 more powerful and most perhabs more important, prove that china can develop and produce high-bypass engines, even if right now they arent as good as the western/russian ones.
You can wait for more pictures all you want. Meanwhile, the rest of us are already content with the picture we have seen. At some point don't you believe your relentless (and unsubstantiated) pessimism should come to an end?
 

by78

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Various Y-20U tanker sightings.

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