China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft - esp. Y-20/YY-20
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Btw, are there any actual rumours/indications that Y-20B won't have the same removable internal cargo bay fuel tanks YY-20A has? Curious because I don't see how it'd function adequately as a tanker without them.
I didn't say that Y-20B won't be able to accommodate any removable internal cargo bay fuel tanks (that is to say, I expect them to be able to accommodate them).
What I said is that it is possible Y-20A may be able to accommodate more internal fuel tanks in the cargo hold than Y-20B does
But why would that be the case, and has there been any evidence to that effect? IIRC from the YY-20A's photo we could see one tube running upward to the wings and another running straight downward and backward (through a pump mechanism) to the central drogue port. Without that central position & pump on the Y-20B if anything it seems like you should expect it to have more room for the internal tank, the cargo bay dimensions otherwise being identical.
Any number of reasons -- having additional cargo bay fuel tanks may require additional plumbing in the aircraft, it may require more time to load an additional tank which as a more regularly configured MRTT they may deem to be too time consuming,
I think you're reading too much into the post which you quoted from me.
I wasn't saying what I thought was likely to be the case -- I was answering a hypothetical on a hypothetical to rationalize why it may be possible that a YY-20A may still have some uses as a tanker relative to a tanker fitted Y-20B, and in #6884 I did explicitly write that of the two hypothetical reasons I listed, the more probable reason for continuing to use YY-20A alongside Y-20B was its central fuselage drogue station, and the cargo fuel capacity of YY-20A vs Y-20B was more of an unknown hypothetical.
China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft - esp. Y-20/YY-20
Thanks so to sum up we can conclude it is MRTT from the fact that it has refueling formation lines while not having refueling pods currently installed. I wouldn't phrase it like that. The problem is that you are entering this topic ("Y-20Bs are MRTTs?") part way through, so you are asking the...
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Obviously as of present we have no idea what the internal cargo fuel tank for Y-20B situation would be as of present. It might be able to carry the same/less/more internal cargo fuel than a YY-20A. In theory they're all equally possible at this stage.
Probably xiaohongshu.
Are there now more than 30 YY-20As confirmed to be flying, with all these new units recently?