China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

ascii said:

First, you have to know who those countries buy HQ-9A/FD-2000. Then you will get the flight path of Y-20.

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Huh? What are you talking about? What does this have anything to do with the flight path of Y-20?

Tyler said:

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Sinodefence forum is not a repository for random, poor effort links to random videos and articles.

If you are posting an article or a video, you are taking responsibility for its presence here and suggesting that it is useful for people to see.

Which means you need to provide at least a brief explanation and justification for why you have linked it, and in cases where it is not in English, provide a translation as well.

by78 said:

Huh? What are you talking about? What does this have anything to do with the flight path of Y-20?

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It should be Kashgar, not Urumqi.

ascii said:

It should be Kashgar, not Urumqi.

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What? Could you please stop speaking in riddles?

What does export sales of FD-2000 have to do with Y-20s' flight route to Serbia? And what's with the country flags? If you meant to say that Y-20s took off from Urumqi and flew over Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, then just say it (and provide a source to back up your claim). Don't make us jump through hoops to guess your meaning. Is that too much to ask?

Whats next? Are you gonna type out your posts in ASCII and make us decipher them using an ?

My word of advice: if you've got something to say, just say it. Don't be clever or fancy. It's poor etiquette to be elusive, allusive, circuitous, indirect, roundabout, meandering, anfractuous, oblique, tortuous, and torturously indirect, because we haven't got all day.

In other words, stop wasting other people's time.

P.S. If you want to show off how clever you are, go join . Then scan your Mensa certificate and use it as your avatar.

ascii said:

First, you have to know who those countries buy HQ-9A/FD-2000. Then you will get the flight path of Y-20.

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????? What is the relevance ?????

A millitary news blogger @剪水鹱 reposted the flight route of the Y-20 squadron to Belgrade (original source unknown):

Each day’s flights involved six Y-20s, which made stopovers in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Istanbul, Turkey, and also flew over central Asia, Armenia and Bulgaria before landing at Nikola Tesla Airport in Serbian capital Belgrade.

The Y-20s making the flights to Serbia and back were monitored on flight-tracking websites, which together with images and videos posted online from Belgrade indicated the aircraft were from the PLAAF’s 13th Transport Division, 37th Air Regiment based out of Kaifeng in China’s Henan province.

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A few more, by Serbian plane spotter Uros Mitrovic.

Strangelove said:

A few more, by Serbian plane spotter Uros Mitrovic.

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Really good photos . The more photos I look the more I think the photographers in official Chinese news are bad at their jobs. Like most of the good photos we have of the PLAAF are from plane spotter hobbyist.

wssth0306 said:

Really good photos . The more photos I look the more I think the photographers in official Chinese news are bad at their jobs. Like most of the good photos we have of the PLAAF are from plane spotter hobbyist.

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In fact, excellent works of PLA official photographers are here: