China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

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The endangered infrastructure includes airfields and their fuel supply. For defensive purposes a railway network is more efficient and cheaper, but if you want to be able to attack countries anywhere in the world at short notice you need large aircraft. That is why the US has more than 200 C-17's, while any other user has less than 20. But using ships is generally much cheaper and that is the preferred method for the US and any other country.
Btw the Dutch Navy spend an extra EUR 100 million above what was agreed with parliament to change the design of its latest transport ship to enable it to transport the tanks of the Dutch army. The last eighty tanks are now for sale and should bring in EUR 200 million.

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Via CDF ! (thanks to "ying1978") ... looks like a Y-9 !!!


PS: ... just one final www-access !

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Deino said:

Via CDF ! (thanks to "ying1978") ... looks like a Y-9 !!!


PS: ... just one final www-access !

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It looks going to induct soon. I bet Y-9 has given a high priority before Y-20 enter service.

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There is another project we have to keep our eyes on which is the Comac C-919. It's a passenger plane but this can be converted and adapted to function as refueling planes, AWACS, and EW platforms. Converting passenger jets to military use is something already being done by the Americans and the Europeans for a long time.

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I doubt C919 will be used for military, it's uses non- chinese systems and will require all Chinese parts on addition why use civilian airline when you have the like of Y8 and Y9 militant aircraft

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What are you guys talking about? We may never know when necessity will arise.. So you are also telling me why do China develop new fighter planes for what?

My point is, if a war broke out. China will definitely need a massive airlift capabilities for its military operations... And with its current airlift arsenal... I don't think it has huge capacity after all.

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What are you guys talking about? We may never know when necessity will arise.. So you are also telling me why do China develop new fighter planes for what?

My point is, if a war broke out. China will definitely need a massive airlift capabilities for its military operations... And with its current airlift arsenal... I don't think it has huge capacity after all.

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And do you know what the current airlift capacity of China is? Maybe do a little bit of research before hand, with the current fleet of Y7, Y8 and IL-76 China has enough airborne capacity to deploy a brigade maybe even 2

For regional threats that is enough capacity, for further afield China has Y9 and Y20 under development, and Chinese leadership knows better than anyone what it needs and what it can do

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The problem for the PLAAF goes beyond just airlift. It has a serious lack of AWACS, Sub hunters, EW platforms, strategic bombers, refueling planes and spy planes. In other words anything bigger than a fighter jet. While the PLAAF have been building up her modern fighter fleet and space capabilities at a brisk pace but in these support area's China is still lacking. This is the result of China's inability to build wide bodied planes. And a deal with Russia to buy IL-76 fell through because the Russians unilaterally jacked up the price of the planes after the negotiations where over. They did the same thing to India, the suspicion is that Russia wanted to move some of the production facilities for the IL-76 that are located in Uzbekistan to Russia and they wanted China and India to help pay for it by jacking up the price of these planes. Of course China and India refused and India went for the US made Globemaster. If the Y-9 that is comparable to the C-130 Hercules can go into production in significant numbers in the next few years, that will help to alleviate a lot of the pressure's for the PLAAF on this front. But the godsend for most of the PLAAF's problems on this front will still have to be the Y-20 and that is not going to be coming in years. And even when it's going to be produced it's still going to have to use Russian engines for a long time to come.

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Where I got this they were calling it ugly. Since when has there been a pretty transport and not necessarily in a negative way?