for my own learning, did the show happen before or after F117's first combat deployment (Panama?)
China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
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Come on, making sense or not is only personal sense, here it is only your sense. Why do you keep on insisting your personal sense is the only reasonable sense? Have you seen China selling any of their first-tier weapon in the last 3 or 4 decades? The only known cases were before the 1970s when China sold their best weapons to allies but that was the height of cold-war.
Also, Japan has not sold any of its top military gears, Japan MUST has no confident to all the gears according to you?
I think I have run out of sense for this subject.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
The First images that made it to press were in Before that the F117 was in the Black. Panama was in late December of 89. The First Airshow appearance was in 1990 first appearance in Paris was 1991.
This of course differs from the Y20 as Chubby Girl was always a White program.
thanks.
No one is claiming that the Y-20 will never be put on export. It is just a matter of when. I'm sure the PLAAF is still not satisfied with their current inventory of Y-20s and plans to purchase at least a few dozen more. This program was always prioritized to provide the Chinese military with an adequate heavy transport, not to sell to other countries like the JF-17. Also, since the WS-20 is very close to induction with the Y-20, I'm sure the PLAAF would wait for the domestic engine before any export considerations ... esp considering the inadequate capabilities of the D-30KP2. I hope this answers your question ... otherwise, you're just arguing in circles.
Im not saying that anyone is claiming that the Y-20 will never be put on export
Sure, but just because Y-20 isnt for export right now, doesnt mean that it isnt useful for it to be sent abroad. It demonstrates that china is confident with its use and even present its abilities, specially in a military event. The issue of the engine is of course, important, because without WS-20, Y-20 capabilities are rather limited, but even so it wouldnt have been worst than sending an Il-76.
Skywatcher
Captain
Indeed. There's a civilian cargo variant of the Y-20 (Y-20F, IIRC, seen at the Zhuhai Airshow) that's at least has some studies done with it and I have a very hard time believing that was planned only for domestic customers.
The Y-20 *just* started mass production. Why should China tie up its production capacity for export markets when they’re still nowhere close to meeting their own internal demand?