this 80 tons MTOW program is related to Y-15 ? or he is talking about different project.
China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
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I'm not aware of any other quad-turboprop aircraft in development/testing in China with MTOW that is in the 80-100-ton category other than the Y-15.
For reference, the AG600M has an MTOW of ~50-60 tons. On the other side of the lake, we have the P-3 Orion with an MTOW of ~64 tons, whereas the cancelled P-7 (i.e., supposed successor to the P-3) is the only one that comes close (~77 tons MTOW). But then again, we have no indication of China looking forward to developing a direct counterpart to the P-7 at this time.
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Unnecessary.
If Y-20 doesn't get its own thread then Y-15 won't get its own thread of course.
Possible new sighting of the Y-15? Posted by @星依樱未 on Bilibili.
Comment from the person who posted this picture:
Strange nacelle, does not match either AEP400/WJ-10 nor WJ-6.
can't match with WJ-6 or AEP400 but have we ever seen WJ-10 engine/nacelle before these pics ? nope. so this is most likely WJ-10 nacelle.
MA700 was rumored to have flown with WJ-10, which from the video also doesn't look like this.