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Anything you can do I can do better? Or just Chinese media hype?

The helicopters look similar, but that does not mean they both perform to the same high degree. Given that China’s Z-10 attack helicopter looks like a transparent rip-off of the U.S. Apache, it might not surprise many to see that China’s upgraded Z-20 utility helicopter, sure enough, looks almost identical to a U.S. Army Black Hawk. However, just how capable is it? It would seem unlikely if not impossible to posit that China’s upgraded Z-20, intended for increased operations in the high-altitude plateau areas of Western China, can in any way rival the Army’s new Future Long Range Assa...

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions Z-20 helicopter, vows to safeguard western border Cao Siqi Published: Feb 08, 2021 09:34 PM A Z-20 utility helicopter is on display prior to the 5th China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin on October 9, 2019. Photo: Xu Luming/GT The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command has commissioned China's newly developed, plateau-capable utility helicopter, the Z-20. Observers noticed on Monday that the choppers seem to have modified engines that could boost their performance and survivability. The command troops vowed to safeguard China's we...

China Replacing Russian Mi-17 Helicopters with Indigenous Z-20 Choppers