Said to be from the Y-20 !

so then same length as ilushin but much wider. that is good then, can carry more type of planes, helicopters and tanks with out breaking it into many tiny pieces.

All T tail transports look to have massive tails.

And I like how you can infer all of that with a glance at a photo, maybe all aerospace companies should hire you to give their designs a once over seeing as you seem to know whether a plane will fly the way they want via eyeballing.

In case you didn’t read my post, the end point was that Y-20 probably won’t be challenging Il-476 for export orders any time soon. So I’m not sure why you’re suddenly so testy.

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Btw Y-20s seemingly unwieldy tail is likely an effect of angle and the generally low resolution of the picture.
We haven’t got a decent side picture yet, and this CG is the closest thing we got (most likely made by someone who was actually there to give us a teasuer of the eventual real high res photos that inevitably must have been taken)
If this is accurate at all clearly its tail is not as large as you believe, at least it looks proportionally sized with the likes of C-17, Il-76 and A400M (not to mention C-2, which also has a massive tail)

yes it does look like the c2 but much larger with more pwoerful engine

both design is new generation of transport.

Russia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding on the sale of four Amur-class (Project 677E) diesel electric attack submarines to China .

The final contract is tentatively worth $2 billion and is expected to be signed by the parties no earlier than 2015

http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/posts/3917262.shtml

this is big lie from russian media again just like su35. no report from chinese side.

can you pls shut up about Russia?

it is not just a problem for russian industry but american one too becaue c17 is almost out of production and too expensive for most country. y20 may have free rein on medium size transport once it flies with chinese engines.

I doubt under the obviously “compressed” development timeline it’s practical to requiring SAC to integrate F-35 level subsystems onto F31. After all F35 has very bold design ambitions and has been under development for decades. Puting together the best systems on hand (which have been tested on J10 or J11) is enough to make it a very useful fighter. As for better systems, they can be gradually introduced to forthcoming improved types.

compress is okay in china because china is not us. china does not have to combine navy, marine, air force needs into one airplane like f35. sac just made one j31.
china do not have to deal with american changing political opinions all the time and they do not have to deal with foreign partners who change their mind all the time and make big slow downs. you can criticize china but its one party system makes it faster to get things done.
also f35 came first. china do not revolutionize jet fighters, they let other countries do the work and china can make a better version of what they see. so j31 is like f35 but learned from its mistakes. so china does not have the same limitation f35 had in its development which is why they can produce j31 faster. it is not a compress schedule, just a schedule with much less obstacles than american ways of doing things.
russia is similar and would like to do the same but it seem putin fired their defense minister and hired an ethnic chinese guy who promise to make defense cuts.

very smooth like glass

the bottom of the j31 is very smooth and flat and it seem it can fit two good size bays, same amount as pakfa. j31 is not a copy of f35 but if it is, it is an improvement on the outside at least. real issue is the inside systems. can china do it?