Judging from the news reported by the media in recent times, the tank-20 air tanker has achieved 1 tow 7 carrying J-10C and J-10S fighters to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to participate in the Saudi defense exhibition, which is also a rare cooperation of the Bayi air show team in the process of transfer to get the air tanker, normally, the flight show teams of various countries around the world will take the way of technical stops to complete the supply of fuel in the process of transfer, and the August 1 air show team in the process of flight transfer, it chose to use the cooperation of air tankers, and the use of air tankers also shows the strong air refueling capabilities of the PLA。 The tank-20 air tanker is the most powerful air tanker in the current PLA combat sequence, its strength is stronger than the bomber-6 air tanker and the Il-78 air tanker, there are three air tankers on the tank-20 air tanker, and the two air tanker tubes under the wing are usually refueled for fighters, but the tanker-20 air tanker can only be refueled for two fighters at the same time, the middle of the tanker is prepared for large aircraft, and the tanker in the middle of the tanker can be the H-6N bomber, Air Police-500A early warning aircraft and other models to complete in-flight refueling.
While the Y-20 air tanker 1-7 carried J-10C and J-10S fighters to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the United States once again demonstrated its strong air refueling capabilities and global strike capabilities. It has been learned that shortly after the US military dispatched KC-135 air tankers to the Middle East, the US B-1B strategic bombers had already achieved a non-stop stop on 23 January, directly bombing targets in the Middle East, and the US military's multi-type fighters, including the B-1B strategic bombers, bombed Iraq and Syria with air strikes。
The B-1B strategic bomber is a supersonic strategic bomber, and the B-1B strategic bomber is also one of the global strike means of the United States, and the U.S. military used the B-1B strategic bomber and a large number of fighters, and the U.S. military's B-1B strategic bomber also achieved a one-stop bombing of the terminal, it is understood that these B-1B strategic bombers continuously bombed multiple targets in Iraq and Syria, but in addition to the B-1B strategic bomber, the United States was not willing to disclose too much, only said that there were no U.S. Navy fighters and U.S. Air Force A-10C fighters to participate in air raids。
B-1B strategic bomber as a supersonic strategic bomber, the strength can not be underestimated, although in recent years B-1B strategic bomber continues to have accidents, at the same time due to the variable swept wing layout of the B-1B strategic bomber maintenance is extremely difficult, but B-1B strategic bomber is still carrying out high-intensity operations, now B-1B strategic bomber shows a non-stop bombing of the Middle East, and China's H-6N bomber does not have this strength. Although the H-6 bomber can be refueled in the air, the bomb load of the H-6 bomber is relatively limited, and the range of the H-6 bomber itself is limited, even if the Y-20 air tanker cooperates with the tanker-20 air tanker to go to a farther area to carry out operations, in fact, it is more difficult, because it is difficult for China to deploy the tank-20 air tanker at overseas bases.
In recent years, China has rarely used H-6N bombers in the course of a large number of long-range military operations in the open sea, and the main force of sorties is still a large number of H-6K bombers, and the number of H-6K bombers is significantly higher than the number of H-6N bombers, but the H-6K bombers with obvious numerical superiority do not have the ability to refuel in the air. Text/Iris