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China's Y-20 transport aircraft conducts multi-aircraft training in challenging conditions

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A group of Y-20 transport aircraft of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force recently carried out intensive multi-aircraft formation and long-range training in complex weather conditions and unfamiliar airspace.

The training highlighted system coordination, autonomous navigation and on-the-spot decision-making, comprehensively honing the strategic delivery and long-range air mobility capabilities of large transport aircraft units in unfamiliar battlefield environments. In a training session that started at noon in southwest China, multiple Y-20s smoothly rolled out onto the tarmac and assembled into a formation after taking off, heading toward designated target airspace.

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