Did Satellites Capture China’s Mysterious Giant War Plane?

The GeoEye 1 and IKONOS spacecraft have captured satellite epitome of the mysterious Xian Aircraft Corporation Y-20 , China ’s first longsighted range cat valium transport . It show the clearest image of the jumbo transport carpenter’s plane yet and reveals that China ’s plane look a lot like the U.S. Air Force ’s C-17 . That ’s not an accident .

The artificial satellite image , which were obtained byWired ’s Danger Room , show China ’s Y-20 as having the same “ panoptic sweep annex and tetraiodothyronine - shaped tail ” as the Boeing made C-17 . The blueprints of the C-17 were stolen by undercover agent working for Boeing and give to China . This airplane ’s design is a rip off .

What China ca n’t pull off though is the engines that are necessary to power the plane . Apparently , there are only four companies capable of work up the kind of engines that the Y-20 needs . Three are westerly companies ( GE / CFM , Rolls Royce and Pratt & Whitney ) and one is Russian . It ’s assumed that China will have to apply Russian railway locomotive to revoke its 200 ton body ( however , Russia is loth to deal engine to China because China might pull them off ) and those locomotive engine may lack the execution in modern transport planes . So though the Y-20 may look like an American giant transport plane , it may actually be all show and no go . [ Wired , Image Credit : GeoEye GeoEye 1 ]

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