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Interesting, the J-16 shown looks like serial number 68190 assigned to the 78th Air Brigade (94826) based at Shanghai-Chongming Island, ETC.



... and the Y-9Z (GX-12) seems to be the already seen one with serial number 30772 assigned to the 26th Specialised Division, 77th Airborne Command and Control Regiment based at Wuxi-Shuofang, ETC.

Interesting excerpt from an academic paper on a bi-fuselage, quad-engine aircraft design. The dimensions listed are of course scaled down. Posted by @Alfa_Particle on Twitter.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Interesting excerpt from an academic paper on a bi-fuselage, quad-engine aircraft design. The dimensions listed are of course scaled down. Posted by @Alfa_Particle on Twitter.

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so Sino Stratolaunch but with four Engines ? interesting

sunnymaxi said:

so Sino Stratolaunch but with four Engines ? interesting

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Depends on how big and powerful the engines are.

The Stratolauncher uses 6x 252kN turbofan engines, and is capable of carrying 220 tons of payload with a MTOW of 590 tons.