Go to Pakistan again, domestic star fighter transportation-20 this year has performed many tasks this year

Polar news reporter Wang Liangliang Huang Jiaqi

Recently, a severe flood in Pakistan has caused more than 1,000 people and about 33 million people. According to CCTV News on the 30th, the Chinese government decided to provide Pakistan with 100 million yuan of emergency humanitarian assistance, including 25,000 tents and other disaster relief materials that were urgently needed by Pakistan.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on the 30th that the Chinese Air Force sent a transport-20 transport aircraft to help Pakistan on the 30th that the aircraft will transport humanitarian rescue supplies such as 3,000 tents. It is expected to arrive at Pakistan Karachi Airport at 4 pm Beijing time.

Yun -20 is a large military multi -purpose transport aircraft developed and produced independently in China. It has the characteristics of long range, large load, fast speed, etc. It is the strategic, iconic, and leading equipment of the Air Force.

Jimu reporters noticed that in recent years, the figures of Yun-20 have been to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, and have played an important role in international humanitarian rescue and material transportation. Since the beginning of this year, the transportation-20 transport aircraft have repeatedly implemented assistance and transportation tasks.

Transported materials to Pakistan

International assistance tasks have been performed many times this year

In addition to flying to Pakistan this time, Yun-20 also went to Tonga and Afghanistan to transport rescue supplies this year.

On January 27 this year, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred near Tanga. On January 28th, Beijing time, the air transport formation of the Chinese Air Force went to Tonga to carry out the mission of transporting disaster relief materials to Tanga.

It is the Chinese star fighter transport-20 that performs this task.

On June 22 this year, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at the junction of eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan, causing more than 1,000 people to be killed and injured in nearly 2,000 people. It was an earthquake that caused the number of victims in Afghanistan in 20 years.

According to Xinhua News Agency, after the earthquake, the Chinese government decided to provide Afghanistan with an emergency humanitarian assistance of 50 million yuan.

At around 8:30 on June 28 local time, the two transport-20 carried the Chinese government to assist Afghanistan's earthquake relief materials to the Kabul Airport, including tents, towels, folding beds and other items urgently needed.

Transport disaster relief supplies to Afghanistan

Afghanistan's National Disaster Management and Humanitarian Acting Minister Wu Lam Galas said at the scene of the rescue of the relief material that this batch of materials were the most urgent need for materials, and the Chinese actions were the best friendship between the two countries. reflect.

Military expert Zhang Xuefeng said in an interview with the Global Times that large military transport aircraft have unique advantages in performing humanitarian aid missions. The first is the good take -off and landing performance. The slippery distance is usually shorter than the civilian transport aircraft with the same tonnage or even smaller. Military transport aircraft can take off in unprecedening runways and even soil runways, which has high adaptability to the runway. In addition, military transport aircraft have large cabin and warehouses, which can be transported to large equipment and suitable for fast loading.

Flying to Serbia to attract Western attention

In April of this year, the 6th shipping -20 dispatched 22 times within 3 days, breaking NATO's air blockade to Serbia, and delivering the weapons purchased by Sei Fang to the door.

On April 11, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian confirmed that China ’s transportation-20 large transport aircraft transported“ conventional military supplies ”to Serbia, which aroused great concern to the Western air forces in the Chinese Air Force.

According to the US "Defense News" reported on April 12, the first batch of 6 shipping -20 was landed at the Nichola Tesla Airport in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia on April 9th, and there were still Yun-20 successively landed a few days later. At the airport.

"Defense News" states that the Yun-20 delivered to Serbia is the FK-3 medium-to-long-range air defense missile made in China (that is, the "Red Flag-22" foreign trade model). arms.

This huge air transportation scale is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese Air Force, and it also shows China's powerful long -range strategic delivery capabilities to the outside world.

According to Global Network, Zhou Guoqiang, a spokesman for China Aviation Industry Group, highly affirmed the performance of Yun-20- "Our Yun-20 does run."

Will go to Europe to participate in the International Air Show

On August 26, the Air Force Aviation Open Activities and Changchun Aviation Exhibition opened in Changchun. This year's Air Force Airlines opened, the "20 series" fighters appeared, and the Yun-20 also carried out air flight display.

Yun-20

At the meeting of the Air Force Airlines and Changchun Aviation Exhibition reporters, the Air Force spokesman Shen Jinjin University of Science and Technology answered the question about the PLA's transportation-20 track on August 27. 20 to fly at any time.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Shen Jinke also revealed at the Air Force Airlines event on the 29th that the Air Force Transport-20 will go to Europe to participate in the International Air Show for the first time.

(Source: Global Times, CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency)

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