China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
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franco-russe
Senior Member
Nobody in his right mind would put money into the AN-70 project, which Russia basically does not really want.
My impression was that the reason the deal for 38 IL-76/78 fell through was that the Russians wanted to move production from Tashkent (that is in Uzbekistan) to Ulyanovsk, and the Chinese neither wanted to wait for this or to co-finance it.
My impression was that the reason the deal for 38 IL-76/78 fell through was that the Russians wanted to move production from Tashkent (that is in Uzbekistan) to Ulyanovsk, and the Chinese neither wanted to wait for this or to co-finance it.
therewere alot of technical risks that A-70s did not answer.
first and foremost engine out ops at lowspeed.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
if the order had gone through who would get the $$$ for them? Uzbekistan or Russia? how and why did Russia want to shift the production, for 38 aircraft I would have thought they would bend over backwards to get such a large order from China?
The original deal was that China would get transport at decent price. Russia got greedy and essentially tried to blackmail China into paying for a new factory. China would rather build a new factory for itself.
Engineer
Major
I think it's not the age but the airframe hours that matter. If those IL-76 aren't used often, then they are practically new.
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I foresee that when Y-20 is available, they would still use IL-76 as platform for AWACS. Using IL-76 as AWACS is already a proven concept and well tested, whereas Y-20 AWACS would require redesign and years of additional test flights (on top of Y-20 test flights).
I doubt it. If you convert the existing airframes, you will be using OLD airframes that has less service life. Contrast that with new Y-20. Yes, you will have to do test flight, but you only has to do it once and you get to build as many as you want to, and they will have full service life and no spare parts issues.
) but we actually don't have a decent photo of the Y-9. 