The picture shows China's Y-20
can transport 66 tons of cargo and has a maximum flight range of up to 8,000 kilometers. What is the Y-20 strategic transport aircraft , which is ahead of Russia's Il76 transport aircraft? In this issue, let’s analyze what , the advanced transport machine developed by China, has.
Figure shows the Y-20 transport aircraft
When China has not successfully developed its own domestic transport engine, the maximum cargo capacity of Y-20 has reached 66 tons. Although under normal circumstances, China usually only allows this transport aircraft to carry no more than 40 tons of cargo, it can be seen how outstanding the performance of this transport aircraft is based on the premise that the initial version of Y-20 transport aircraft 's extreme transportation capacity far exceeds Il 76's initial version, it can still be seen how outstanding the performance of this transport aircraft is. After this transporter is replaced with the new turbofan engines turbofan-18 and turbofan-20, the performance of the Y-20 will be further improved.
The picture shows the Il 76
, but the biggest difference between the Y-20 and the Il 76 is that the Y-20 is a wide-body transport aircraft with a higher fuselage width than the Il 76, which allows China to stuff the stronger tank into their Y-20 transport aircraft for air transportation. The Il 76 can only transport goods with lower widths because its fuselage is relatively narrow. This means that if Russia wants to transport some cargo with a width exceeding the limit, it must use heavy transport aircraft such as An-124. Even if its own weight is still within the bearing range of the Il76 transport aircraft, Russia has to use more expensive and worse environmentally adaptable large transport aircraft or super-large transport aircraft, thereby wasting the country's precious money. In addition, China's Y-20 not only has a larger internal space than the Il 76, but its internal space is more regular and neat than the Il 76: when China developed the Y-20 transport aircraft, it raised the wing box height of this transport aircraft, thus making the internal space of the transport aircraft coherent, which allows the Y-20 to transport some large cargo that will completely occupy the height of the fuselage of 4 meters inside the machine. Due to its own body design problems, the central part of the wing box will penetrate into the cabin, which makes it difficult for the Il 76 transport aircraft to transport taller cargo, thus limiting the carrying capacity of this transport aircraft to a certain extent.
diagram shows the Il 76
in the snow. With the premise of having a large and regular internal space of the body, China can use the Y-20 strategic transport aircraft to transport many things that can be withstood by the Il 76 transport aircraft in terms of weight, but cannot be installed at all: just like Russia's own T72 tank , the side skirt plate must be removed first, the body width can be reduced, and then it can be driven into the Il 76 transport aircraft for transportation. The Y-20, which has an internal width of up to 4 meters, can directly load the Type 99 tank into the cabin without dismantling the vehicle skirt plate and armor, so that the Chinese army can complete the strategic transportation of heavy vehicle units at a faster speed. Therefore, with the mass production of the Y-20, China's strategic delivery capabilities will be greatly improved. This improvement is not the capacity improvement brought about by purchasing a second-hand Il 76, but the ability to allow heavy equipment similar to tanks, heavy infantry fighting vehicles, and armed helicopters, , which can only be transported through new transport aircraft, to be strategically delivered.
