The Y-20 strategic transport aircraft has been massively equipped in the PLA Air Force Aviation Force, and from the perspective of mission type, the equipment of this transport aircraft has also replaced the tasks of many old Russian-made Il-76 transport aircraft in the previous PLA combat sequence. After many optimizations in the aerodynamic layout and aircraft design, the Y-20 transport aircraft is significantly larger than the Il-76 transport aircraft in the cargo space, although the current Il-76 transport aircraft and the Y-20 transport aircraft are equipped with Russian-made D30 turbofan engines, but after the Y-20 is replaced with a domestic turbofan 20 engine, its carrying capacity will be much stronger than that of the Russian-made Il-76 transport aircraft. According to a recent media report, a Y-20 transport plane has carried a large number of PLA soldiers to Moscow, the capital of Russia, to participate in international military competitions in Russia.
The Y-20 strategic transport aircraft, which is constantly heading to Russia, is actually demonstrating the strength of the Chinese transport aircraft to Russia. At present, Russia's Il-76 transport aircraft has been seriously old, and these old transport aircraft are overwhelmed, but Russia has no new models to replace these transport aircraft, but Russia is unwilling to bow to China, even if there have been many Il-76 transport aircraft and A-50 transport aircraft lost in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and now Russia is not willing to seek the purchase of Y-20 transport aircraft from China. Judging from a piece of information disclosed by Europe and the United States, Russia is forcibly unsealing some mothballed transport aircraft, including an An-124 transport aircraft.
There are a large number of aircraft cemeteries on the territory of Russia and the United States, and one of the Russian aircraft cemeteries is located at the Bryansk Sercha airbase. The Russian Aerospace Forces recently found an An-124 transport plane that is in good condition and is ready to transport it to Vostochny Airport in Ulyanovsk to repair and modernize the plane, so that the An-124 transport plane can be restored to airworthiness. There is no doubt that this is a transport plane born in the Soviet era, and there is information that this transport plane has been mothballed for 25 years, unlike the American aircraft cemetery at Davis Monson Air Force Base in Arizona, the Russian aircraft cemetery is very humid, so this An-124 transport aircraft has a faded paint and mottled paint, and it must be a big project to repair.
Many of the aircraft mothballed in Russia are in a much worse state of maintenance than those of the United States, which is also because the United States chooses to store its aircraft in the desert, and the dryness of the desert is also conducive to the storage of aircraft. As a large transport aircraft designed by the Antonov Design Bureau, these transport aircraft are almost all produced and manufactured in Ukraine, and before 2014, Ukraine was also willing to help Russia provide logistical support for the An-124 transport aircraft, including the maintenance of the engine and the maintenance of the aircraft fuselage, but with the conflict in Crimea and now the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine has completely interrupted the maintenance of these An-124 transport aircraft, and the Russian side also claims that it has the ability to maintain the An-124 transport aircraft。
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the level of Russia's aviation industry has declined significantly, and now Russia wants to complete the repair of an An-124 transport aircraft, and the war research institute believes that it is very difficult, but Russia is unwilling to bow to China to choose China's new transport aircraft. Since Russia is unwilling to bow its head, China does not have to force it, and in the future, Russia will have a lot of trouble due to serious contradictions in the fleet. Text/Iris