Zhuhai Airshow 2022

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taxiya

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taxiya said:
You mean "no motor(engine)"?
The naming AKF indicates it is a missile. A stands for missile, K stands for air (Kong in Chinese). Unless PLAN categories unpowered but guided glider as missile, there should be an engine. As the question of where the inlet is, I think some stealthy cruise missiles have their inlet buried in the fuselage in a recess.
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Actually many of the similar blocky missiles have exposed intakes (storm shadow, Taurus, etc) but JASSM does have a fully buried one, I’m leaning toward AKF-98A having something like that on the back
 
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A peek into the cargo hold of a Y-20U tanker. You can clearly see the drogue deployment mechanism and how it connects through the opening in the fuselage. Further back into the cargo hold, I spot a round outline. I wonder... Is that the fuel tank? It could be some kind of cargo, BUT the drogue deployment mechanism would have to be dismantled first to get that thing out. So I'm leaning toward that being the fuel tank, and if so, this is the first actual image of it.

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