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The final test flight of the Y-20 was successfully completed. After the work was completed, the head of Saxo Aviation announced that the Y-20 large transport aircraft was officially finalized and put into mass production.

This news was not announced to the public. What China wants now is to keep a low profile. Now is not the time for full competition. Many things can be kept secret.

The Y-20 is a dual-use transport aircraft, which can be used for both military and civilian purposes.

Now that the Y-20 is officially mass-produced, all indicators also meet the Air Force indicators. Therefore, the Air Force's order arrived at the first time, and the Air Force's first order was as high as 120 aircraft.

The price of the Y-20 is not cheap. Even if it is supplied to the military, the price of one aircraft is as high as 1.5 billion yuan. The domestic price of the civilian version is as high as 2 billion yuan.

As for foreign sales, the price will definitely be higher. At that time, the specific sales plan still needs to be negotiated. Large transport aircraft are not the same as advanced fighters. The main purpose of this thing is to be used as a platform, not as a weapon. Therefore, compared with the most advanced fighters, this strategic transport aircraft is much looser in foreign sales.

120 Y-20s, this is a big order. According to the requirements of the Air Force, at least 20 of these 120 Y-20s must be delivered each year.

In addition to the orders placed by the military, Xu Huasheng's Xingda Express Company also directly placed an order for 20 civilian versions.

Xingda Express is currently one of the most powerful express delivery companies in the world and the fastest growing express delivery company. Its business has spread to many countries. The model of Xingda Express is the SF Express model of the original time and space, and the best thing is air transportation.

Not to mention other things, Xingda Express now has 220 double-tailed scorpion cargo drones, and this number is still increasing.

Although the load capacity of these double-tailed scorpions is not large each time, the aircraft is cheap, and there is no need for pilots, so the operating cost is extremely low.

It is very convenient to send and receive express delivery. E-commerce has not yet risen, and the express delivery industry has not yet ushered in an explosion. So now everyone sends express delivery, which is relatively small and expensive. After all, the express delivery fee is not cheap now.

However, the service of Xingda Express is very good, and the speed is very fast. As long as the place is not too remote, it is basically delivered the next day.

These drones fly in the sky of China, constantly transporting various goods back and forth. At the same time, during the flight, they constantly collect flight data, improve the flight control system, and provide a large amount of data to the Thousand-Handed Guanyin system.

The most important thing is that these double-tailed scorpion drones only need to replace a few simple modules to be put into military use, turning into unmanned bombers with a range of 12,000 kilometers and a payload of one ton. If the range is shorter, the payload will be greater. If the range is only one or two thousand kilometers, the payload can be up to three tons, and three tons of payload is already very powerful.

The most important thing is that this thing wins by quantity, densely packed like a swarm of bees.

According to the plan, in the future, Xingda Company will purchase hundreds or even more double-tailed scorpion drones every year. In the future, Xingda Express's business will be all over the world, and Xingda Express alone may have tens of thousands of double-tailed scorpions.

However, the limitations of the double-tailed scorpion are also very large. It can only pull small things and cannot load large things. Large cargo requires large transport aircraft. The Y-20 obviously meets the requirements of Xingda Express.

With such a large cargo capacity, it can even carry missile vehicles, and most express deliveries can be transported in such a space.

If it is not enough, there will be the Y-30 compared to the C-5 in the future, and there will be a super transport aircraft that is larger than the An-225. Both of these transport aircraft are also under development.

In the future, cargo aircraft will be an important business of Saxo Aviation, and there will be many models, from small to large, and many series and models will be developed.

The Y-20 has been officially finalized and mass-produced, but Huaxia has not announced it, but has placed an order in a low-key manner. At present, the production volume of the Y-20 production line of Saxo Aviation is not small, with an annual production volume of about 25 aircraft.

For a strategic transport aircraft, this production capacity is already very good. With a production capacity of 25 aircraft, the military will deliver 20 aircraft, and 5 aircraft can be delivered to the civilian market.

Of course, if the demand in the civilian market is large in the future, the production capacity can continue to increase.

In a conference room in the base, Xu Huasheng and a group of technicians sat together to discuss.

The design drawings were projected on the big screen. This is an aircraft, an early warning aircraft based on the Y-20. The internal number is currently KJ-20.

KJ-20 was jointly developed by multiple departments, including Saxo Aviation, Huaguang Optoelectronics, Huaxia Electronic Technology Group, etc.

Unlike traditional early warning aircraft, the current KJ-20 has no large round plate at all. Because the radar used by KJ-20It is a digital patch common active phased array radar, which is several generations more advanced than the mainstream early warning aircraft on the market.

The digital patch radar of gallium nitride alone is a killer.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to our current technology, our KJ-20 has an air detection range of about 1,500 kilometers for non-stealth large air targets, such as early warning aircraft, bombers, tankers, etc. For non-stealth small and medium-sized targets, such as fighters and large drones, the detection range is 1,000 kilometers. And the sounding distance for stealth targets is 400 kilometers..."

In the conference room, a person in charge detailed the various data of KJ-20. The KJ-20 project has been launched a long time ago.

Now many technologies have been verified, and the Y-20 is now finalized, and the first prototype of KJ-20 is also about to start production.

The performance of KJ-20 can only be described as abnormal, with the farthest sounding distance of 1,200 kilometers. This is quite abnormal. From 1,200 kilometers away, the enemy's early warning aircraft, bombers, and tankers can be detected.

In comparison, the most advanced E3 early warning aircraft in the United States has an air detection range of only about 660 kilometers for large targets. The detection range for targets such as fighter jets is about 440 kilometers, and it cannot detect stealth targets at all.

In terms of air detection distance alone, the KJ-20 can form a generation gap. Early detection, early ambush, and early attack.

In addition to the powerful radar, the internal digital control center is even more powerful. The US E3 early warning aircraft can only command about 10 aircraft at the same time.

However, if the KJ-20 manually commands manned fighters, it can command about 60 aircraft at the same time. If the Thousand Hands Guanyin system commands drones, it can easily command thousands of drones.

Moreover, the KJ-20 can also form a huge data link network with unmanned early warning aircraft and other aircraft to make its performance more powerful.

The data link system is the most amazing part. Space-based satellites, aircraft in the air, warships in the sea, underwater submarines, ground vehicles and radar stations, etc., all of these things form a huge network, a dragnet that is extremely powerful.