China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

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Interview with female Y-9 pilot in PLAAF:


Chen Jinlan, hot girl, from Sichuan, a super pilot, was recruited into the army in 1997 and became a female air force soldier. She has flown 5 types of aircraft with more than 3,000 hours of flight time. She has piloted the "Zhu Rihe" series of exercises successively, Long Sky Operation 2012 and Sea Training and other major military operations. In June 2014, Chen Jinlan was ordered to fly a domestically-made new transport aircraft, becoming the only female captain of the latest domestically-made Y-9 transport aircraft currently in service, and also the only female captain and female training staff member of a certain division of the Air Force of the People's Liberation
 
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taxiya

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Is the Y-20 production line employing pulse line as well like the Y-9?
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Y-20 serial production line was pulse line from the very beginning (2015). Y-9 adopted pulse line in 2017 some years after beginning of serial production. I think it is safe to say that all major aircraft production lines are pulsed. Pulse line is like DSI, nothing fancy.
 
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More high-resolution images of Y-20A arriving at Innsbruck, Austria. The plane was carrying participants for this year's Edelweiss Raid mountain warfare competition.

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ACuriousPLAFan

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Something to consider about:
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If airlifters can be made capable of autonomous flying, then more precious pilots will be available for tasks and positions that are more demanding and have bigger attrition rates during wartime, such as pilots for fighter jets, bombers and AEW&C aircrafts.

Here's the thing:
- On one hand, China doesn't have sufficient numbers of Y-9 and Y-20, so there's a need to build more of them - And fast.
- On the other hand, China has a mature and expanding UAV industry, even suffering from some degree of 内卷. That means China has the necessary potential and capability to design and build large-sized cargo drones, which are essentially similar to the proposed autonomous airlifters of the US.

In other words, the functionalities and capabilities of cargo drones can be unified with airlifters, such that manned airlifters can be replaced by cargo drones in the future.
 
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Michaelsinodef

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Something to consider about:
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If airlifters can be made capable of autonomous flying, then more precious pilots will be available for tasks and positions that are more demanding and have bigger attrition rates during wartime, such as pilots for fighter jets, bombers and AEW&C aircrafts.

Here's the thing:
- On one hand, China doesn't have sufficient numbers of Y-9 and Y-20, so there's a need to build more of them - And fast.
- On the other hand, China has a mature and expanding UAV industry, even suffering from some degree of 内卷. That means China has the necessary potential and capability to design and build large-sized cargo drones, which are essentially similar to the proposed autonomous airlifters of the US.

In other words, the functionalities and capabilities of cargo drones can be unified with airlifters, such that manned airlifters can be replaced by cargo drones in the future.
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We already have some smaller 1-5 tons Cargo drones like the Tengden.

I think they are definitely on the study board for the procurement part of the PLA, and trials and use of these smaller cargo UAVs can possibly pave the way for larger ones.
 
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