China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

ChinaWatcher1 · Monday at 5:04 PM

And also I can't add up all the YY-20A that has been built so far. With the last 8 seen so far in a january satellite picture, what is the total visually confirmed YY-20A? 23?

Blitzo · Monday at 5:43 PM

ismellcopium said:
So is there in fact no meaningful distinction on "tanker" vs "cargo" Y-20Bs, they're all interchangeable?

That is the understanding.
However as I wrote Y-20B as a tanker lacks the centreline fuselage refuelling position that YY-20A has.

ismellcopium said:
Have there been any recent updates on the progress of the type?

I don't know, what is an update defined as?
We are basically just waiting for pictures of the type in service, which predictably will be long delayed after it actually occurs

Jason_ · Monday at 11:59 PM

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.

The sad fact is that we live in a world where the oversimplified graphs from some twitter user is more accuracy and informative than virtually all think tank and government reports.

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