China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

Even at its current state the Y20 should be able to lift a ZTZ99A, but short takeoff capabilities and range will suffer.

Bltizo said:

But for the foreseeable future, if XAC can only mass produce a Y-20 with baseline Il-76 performance, that would still be a massive leap for the PLA's airlift capacity. I'm just glad they had the foresight to make the hull very wide.

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Right, hope they'll just churn this bird on the production line when every kinks are sorted out.
Engines can wait for a retrofit, and i'm not complaining about the size, seems perfect for what China needs and can come up with right now

The Y-20 needs to be built on numbers to translate this R&D achievement into an operational capability.
Let the flight hours build up.

Ohhhhh pleeeeeaaaassssse !

I think that picture is understating the width of the fuselage a little, going by those satellite photos

..... Mommy mommy Where do Attack helicopters Come from?
Well sonney When a Transport and a fighter Jet love each other a real lot...

Bltizo said:

I think that picture is understating the width of the fuselage a little, going by those satellite photos

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Yes, I think You are correct. Here's a new estimation on the dimensions ... y j s.cn/htm_data/27/1301/854856.html

Deino

according to wmf, the overall lenght is 47 meter,payload is 55 ton, but Y-20A power more powerful CJ-2000 is lenghten to 53 meter,payload 75 ton.

hardware said:

according to wmf, the overall lenght is 47 meter,payload is 55 ton, but Y-20A power more powerful CJ-2000 is lenghten to 53 meter,payload 75 ton.

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To admit these guesses on a more powerfull and larger Y-20A come IMO a bit too early ... maybe only wet-dreams ! Let's simply wait and let us see that bird (!) fly.

Deino

Payload 75t is pure wet dream. Unless they got some CF6s on it.

Would it be possible to develop a high bypass ratio version of the WS-15?