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🇨🇳 Xian Y-20
Air · Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (AVIC) — Çin · 2016
The Y-20 Kunpeng is China's indigenous four-jet strategic airlifter, carrying tanks and heavy loads over long distances and spawning a tanker variant (Y-20U) — the growing backbone of PLA strategic air mobility.
Specifications
- Type: Heavy strategic transport aircraft (4-engine, high wing)
- Manufacturer / Origin: Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corp. (AVIC) · China
- Dimensions: Length 47 m · wingspan ~50 m · height 15 m
- Max takeoff weight: ~220 tons
- Payload: 66 tons (1 main battle tank or 2 Type 15 light tanks)
- Engine: 4× Shenyang WS-20 turbofans (~140 kN / each ~14 tons thrust); early Y-20A: 4× Russian D-30KP-2 (~118 kN)
- Max speed: ~926 km/h (Mach 0.75)
- Range: ~4,500 km at full load · 7,800 km with 40 t load · ferry range 10,000 km
- Ceiling: ~13,000 m
- Crew: 3 (pilot, co-pilot, loadmaster)
- First flight / service: January 26, 2013 / July 6, 2016 · 100+ delivered by 2025
Beats: Il-76MD-90A (Rusya) — daha geniş gövde kesiti ve modern yerli aviyonikle daha hacimli yük + daha taze üretim hattı, Kawasaki C-2 (Japonya) — çok daha yüksek faydalı yük (66 t vs ~36 t) ve tank taşıma kapasitesi, A400M Atlas (Avrupa) — ham tonaj ve gövde hacminde üstün; bir MBT'yi tek seferde taşıyabilir
Loses to: C-17 Globemaster III (ABD) — daha yüksek yük (~77 t), olgun kısa/zorlu pist performansı ve kanıtlanmış küresel operasyon geçmişi, An-124 Ruslan (Ukrayna/Rusya) — sınıf üstü dev yük kapasitesi (120+ t) ile aşırı boyutlu kargoda kıyaslanamaz, C-17 (ABD) — WS-20 öncesi Y-20A'nın eski D-30KP-2 motorları menzil/yakıt verimliliğinde geride bırakıyordu
The Y-20 gives China a home-built heavy-lift jet in the C-17 class, ending reliance on imported Il-76s. Early aircraft used Russian D-30 engines; newer ones move to indigenous WS-20 high-bypass turbofans, and the Y-20U tanker variant extends the PLA's reach. Production scale is its strength. As a large, unarmed aircraft it is a vulnerable, high-value asset.
Related systems
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
