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Значення для конфліктів

Це єдиний запис каталогу для цієї системи. Вона стосується модуля нижче; Force Atlas кожного модуля показує, як її там застосовують.

Оператори

Роль на полі бою

Strategic airlift and, in the tanker variant, aerial refuelling — the enabling capability that determines how far and how long other aircraft can operate.

Сильні сторони

Indigenous production of large aircraft addresses a long-standing PLA weakness, and the tanker variant directly extends the reach of the combat fleet.

Обмеження

Fleet size and engine production have historically been constraints, and support-fleet capacity remains a limiting factor on sustained operations at distance. No inventory or basing detail is published here.

Значення для кампаній

Виведено: організація-учасник цих кампаній має типізований зв’язок із цією системою. Це не те саме, що задокументоване застосування системи в самій кампанії.

• Тривалий тиск нижче порогу Посилюється з 2020 року

  via PLA Air Force (Documented, moderate confidence)

Візуальна ідентифікація

A large four-engine high-wing transport with a T-tail and a notably wide fuselage — superficially similar to Western strategic transports and most reliably identified by its size relative to escorts. The tanker derivative carries hose-and-drogue pods under the outer wings, which is the only external difference visible in most photographs.

Задокументоване застосування в конфлікті

In service since the mid-2010s and reported by Taiwan's defence ministry in activity around the island, including the tanker derivative: on 25 May 2026 Taiwan identified an aerial refueller operating with fighters and an airborne early-warning aircraft. The tanker's appearance is the analytically significant part — refuelling capacity is the constraint on sustained activity east of Taiwan, and its presence in a detection report says more than the transport role does. These are Taiwanese detections published by Taiwan and are read on those terms.

Оператори — види та роди збройних сил

• Повітряні сили НВАК Задокументовано