Posted by Alert5 today, the following image shows the first photographs of China’s new four-engine military airlifter.
The large military transport aircraft is allegedly designed Y-20 and, nose aside, its shape is almost identical to that shown in a series of artist’s impressions that have appeared on Chinese media outlets.
Indeed, the aircraft depicted in the detailed renderings you can find in this post seems to be a turbojet clone of the Airbus A400M Atlas four-engine turboprop, whereas the one depicted on the ground in the new pictures features a nose section inspired by the Antonov An-70.
Actually, inputs from several other aircraft types, including the Boeing C-17, can be found in the Y-20. In July 2009, a former Boeing employee was convicted of selling secret C-17 technical details to China.
It looks like an AWACS version of the Y-20 is also being envisaged.
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its not like they invented the machine,its old technology im not impressed,they are copy cats with an unlimited supply of money thanks to america.i am unimpressed,they steal and buy too much technology ,steal from usa,{silicon chink valley}in the peoples republic of california,and buy from the russians or israel.they lack innovation,they have to wait till everyone does it first,making them the masters at reverse technology.fuk em,now can they drive it,no one at sea is safe.lol…
Yeah, sure…Every time a new chinese plane appears, they’re copying….Now it’s an HYBRID, they’re copying both A400M and C-17…
The old proverbe -if it works, use it!- doesn’t seem to aply here, for if the chinese make a cargo plane that LOOKS LIKE A CARGO PLANE, they’re copyng previous cargo planes designs…Is the same old story of the Cold War, when everything russians made ” they copied from the West. Pathetic…I suppose those who write this considerer themselves aviation experts….
This plane does NOT copy C-17 any more than the Globemaster “copies” C-5 Galaxy. They just have the same basic function, thus they look the same…