China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

by78

by78

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A Y-20 was spotted in Mink, Belarus.

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lcloo

lcloo

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ismellcopium said:
Y-20B you mean? He says catching up quickly on transports "especially" because of it, I'd assume he's saying some portion of transports can be converted to tankers, just wondering which.
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Go to Page 575 post#5750, may be this is what you are looking for? It is YY20.
 
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ismellcopium

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lcloo said:
Go to Page 575 post#5750, may be this is what you are looking for? It is YY20.
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Interesting, looks like that's discussing convertibility of YY-20 to cargo variant though, whereas I was asking about the reverse?

Bit off topic, but does anyone know if J-16s, J-11s etc can do buddy refueling?
 
Blitzo

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Deino said:
I think this refers to the YY-20B only
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He wrote "MTT" which probably means "MRTT" which is an aircraft that can operate as both a tanker or a transport, and that is what we expect all standard Y-20Bs to be able to do by virtue of wing pods (no Centreline fuselage pod)


That said I'm also really not a big fan of these oversimplified graphs he makes.
 
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ismellcopium

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Blitzo said:
He wrote "MTT" which probably means "MRTT" which is an aircraft that can operate as both a tanker or a transport, and that is what we expect all standard Y-20Bs to be able to do by virtue of wing pods (no Centreline fuselage pod)


That said I'm also really not a big fan of these oversimplified graphs he makes.
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So is there in fact no meaningful distinction on "tanker" vs "cargo" Y-20Bs, they're all interchangeable?
Have there been any recent updates on the progress of the type?
 
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