China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

by78

General
Night jump from a Y-20's rear ramp.

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voyager1

Captain
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Does anyone know it is Y20 or Ilyushin Il-76? This plane and others 16 jet fighter J-11 have been trespass my beloved country, Malaysia FIR yesterday.:mad:


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IMO this should be a Il-76

And no need on dramatic comments.
There was no "trespass".
There weren't any J-11, only transport planes took part on this

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16 Chinese military transport planes had come close to violating Malaysian airspace
 

cfchang

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It's 16 transporters mix with Y-20 and IL-76 but no "fighters".

It is definitely not friendly, a show of force, however non-threaten since no "fighters". With 16 these babies, this formation can carry a light-infantry regiment.

I am wondering "are we missing some Malaysia politics info"?
 

KFX

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The Chinese Y-20/IL-76 flight certainly got a lot of attention in Southeast Asia. I agree with the view that this was practice for a heavy-lift surge exercise. What else could it be? In the event of a military confrontation, this sort of heavy-lift capability would be highly useful in getting men/equipment down to the various bases China has built on South China Sea atolls.

China's other option for a long-range practice flight over water is to the east, where there are plenty of adversarial countries (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and nowhere convenient to divert if one of the aircraft had an issue. Should one of the aircraft gone tech, a nice atoll base is within easy reach.
 

lcloo

Captain
Does anyone know it is Y20 or Ilyushin Il-76? This plane and others 16 jet fighter J-11 have been trespass my beloved country, Malaysia FIR yesterday.:mad:


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The IL-76 and Y20 group (no fighter jets) turned back North at around 60 nautical miles (about 100KM) from Sarawak coast. International law states that national sovereign airspace is 12 NM (about 20km) from the coast. And airspace above EEZ is international airspace.

TUDM's statement on "close to violation" is correct but the press, politicians and even ministers have zero knowledge on sovereign airspace or they purposely chose to be ignorant. There is no trepassing or violation of national airspace.

Also, Civil aviation control space is not national airspace, they are to facilitate control of civilian passenger jets only.
 
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