China Games -20 has exceeded 51?The output exceeds the United States C-17, whether it is possible to seize the world's number one

The recent news about the Chinese transport-20 strategic transport aircraft is undoubtedly its participation in the "Air Power 22" air show held in Austria. With the absence of the "Air Power 22" air show in the US C-17 strategic transport aircraft, China's transport-20 strategic transport aircraft is undoubtedly the largest strategic transport aircraft in the "Air Power 22" air show. Strategic transport aircraft is called "Phoenix from the Central Kingdom". From a physical point of view, the Yun-20 is also obviously larger than the European A400M strategic transport aircraft.

Since ancient times, "soldiers and horses do not move grain and grass first", strategic air transport power has always been one of the important indicators to measure the overall combat effectiveness of a large country. Since serving the Yun-20 strategic transportation machine, not only participated in the strategic air transportation tasks against Serbia, but also repeatedly transported humanitarian rescue supplies to Afghanistan, and after Pakistan suffered a flood, he urgently sent disaster relief supplies to Pakistan. Judging from the current situation, the Yun-20 strategic transport aircraft has become an important business card for China to show China's power and China's positive image to the international community.

Of course, many foreign military observers are also interested in the shipping-20 strategic transport aircraft participating in the Austrian "Air Power 22" air show. They found that the shipping-20 vertical tail of the number 20241 also had a "0051" black number. Therefore, it was believed that the 51st mass-produced-20 strategic transport aircraft participating in the "Air Power 22" air show, China The total output of China Games-20 has exceeded 51. If this kind of speculation is correct, it means that the current production capacity of the Chinese transport-20 strategic transport aircraft is already quite good.

Prior to this, many people believed that the Yun-20 did not produce on a large scale in the WS-20 Dahan Road to the shipping-20 strategic transport aircraft. But from the current situation, the progress of the WS-20 has not had much impact on the production of transportation-20. This actually confirms another possibility, that is, the existing equipment of the Russian-made D-30KP-2 turbofan engine. After simple adjustment Daobi turbofan motor. Therefore, the Yun-20 can first increase the output, and then change it slowly after the domestic engine is in place.

In fact, the current demand for the China Air Force's transportation-20 is still very large. Before the C919 passenger aircraft was unable to conduct military modification in a short period of time, in addition to acting as a strategic aircraft, the Yun-20 was also an important special machine modification platform of the Chinese Air Force. In addition to the large-scale air refueling machine that has been publicly debuted at present, there may be a new generation of large air early warning aircraft with the platform as the platform in the future.

In addition, the Russian-made Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft, which was equipped with the Chinese Air Force, has gradually retired after a period of use. Although there are still more than 20 Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft in service in the Chinese Air Force, as the age of aircraft increases, these more than 20 Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft will eventually be domestically produced-20 strategies that are domestically produced-20 strategies Replaced by transport aircraft. Therefore, the output of Yun-20 will definitely not be less.

Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft equipped by Chinese Air Force

Judging from the officially announced data, the oil-20-large air tanker's air in-air gas transmission capacity of the Russian-made D-30KP-2 turbofan engine is now 75 tons. This also means that after changing the WS-20 Dahan Road Bycotic engine, the new version of the oil-20 large air tanker's air volume may reach more than 80 tons or even close to 90 tons. In addition, the maximum take-off weight of the existing Yun-20 may also be close to about 250 tons.

At present, the total global output of the American C-17 strategic transport aircraft is 227. The Russian "News Network" believes that the total output of the Chinese transport-20 strategic transport aircraft may reach 300, which completely surpass the US-made C-17 "Global Overlord" and become the world in the world. The largest strategic transport aircraft. From the perspective of demand, there are currently not a large-scale strategic transport aircraft such as An-124 in my country. Even if it has developed large strategic transport aircraft such as An-124, the combination of two strategic transport aircraft two strategic transport aircraft C-17 and C-5 From the perspective, the China Air Force's transportation-20 may still be the main transport aircraft of the Chinese Air Force.

If you rely on the number of equipment of the Chinese Air Force, even if you add other special aircraft such as the oil-20 large air tanker developed by the platform as the platform, it is still difficult to exceed the total output of the C-17 strategic transport aircraft. of. Whether the total output of Yun-20 can eventually surpass C-17? The key is whether the Yun-20 strategic transport aircraft will have more international orders. The Chinese military delegation has repeatedly displayed the related model of Yun-20 at the International Defense Exhibition, which proves that we are intended to export it.

Who will buy China ’s Yun-20 strategic transport aircraft?The most likely is Pakistan, which is highly "Chinese" in the air force equipment, but due to the limitation of military expenses, Pakistan's purchase number will not be too much.Secondly, Iran, there is also a lot of probability to purchase China ’s Yun-20.Of course, I personally think that the biggest obstacle on the road to the road of Yun-20 is actually the WS-20 engine.After all, the Russian-made D-30KP-2 turbofan engine is transported-20 if it is exported, there are still many restrictions.Picture source network, invading deletion.

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