China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Some photos of the pulse production line of the Y-20. Given how the engines are still WS-18 instead of WS-20, these photos should not be recent.

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How can people tell if the engines are WS-18 and not D-30KP-2?

THX 1138 said:

How can people tell if the engines are WS-18 and not D-30KP-2?

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Notbody can tell by the looks since WS-18 is Chinese produced D-30. But one can tell by the date of the production when XAC run out of imported D-30.

taxiya said:

Notbody can tell by the looks since WS-18 is Chinese produced D-30. But one can tell by the date of the production when XAC run out of imported D-30.

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… and this was what date?

Deino said:

… and this was what date?

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Only saying that is the possible way to tell, not saying anyone knows the date, nor does anyone know the day of the footage taken.

We could try to estimate
According to this, 55 D-30 were delivered.

So each H-6K/J/N needs 2
Each Y-20 needs 4
Plus spares for both + Il-76/78

Y-20 number 20241 completed transport mission of 25 CPV martyrs back to China:

supersnoop said:

We could try to estimate
According to this, 55 D-30 were delivered.

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So each H-6K/J/N needs 2
Each Y-20 needs 4
Plus spares for both + Il-76/78

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According to the between Russia and China from the years 2000 to 2022=

- 55 D-30 turbofan ordered in 2009, delivered from 2009 to 2012 "For H-6K bomber aircraft produced in China and possibly for modernization of Il-76 transport aircraft" +
- possibly (184) D-30 turbofan ordered 2011, delivered from 2012 to 2017 "For H-6K bomber aircraft and Y-20 transport aircraft produced in China and modernization of Il-76 transport aircraft" +
- An unknown number of ordered D-30 turbofan in 2015, for a grand total of up to 825 deliveries from 2018 to 2022 "For H-6K combat aircraft and Y-20 transport aircraft produced in China"

Information on the sources and methods used in the collection of the data, and explanations of the conventions, abbreviations and acronyms, can be found at URL <

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China buys 463 D30 engines for Y-20 and H-6K, WS-20 to come

These are D30 engines, right?

ClaudeJ said:

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China buys 463 D30 engines for Y-20 and H-6K, WS-20 to come

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bro, thanks for the excellent link