China Stealth Bomber to Debut This Year
An artist conception of the Xian-H20 bomber. (Weibo)
China will debut its Xian H-20 stealth this year. This bomber will give them an ability that the US and Russia possess… A nuclear triad. The reported range for this craft brings Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, The Philippines, Australia, and other allies in the region within its range.
This bomber will contribute to the challenges that we face in the western Pacific. Future generations of this bomber could bring Europe and North America within its range.
From Fox News:
The H-20 would give China what only the United States and Russia have –a nuclear triad, or a three-pronged military force structure that can launch nuclear attacks from the air, land, and sea. China, Russia, and the U.S. are the only three countries that have the needs and resources to develop huge strategic bombers that can strike targets across the globe.
DIA director, Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr., said in a 2019 speech that “China is likely to at least double the size of its nuclear stockpile in the course of implementing the most rapid expansion and diversification of its nuclear arsenal in China’s history.”
In 2018, China launched more ballistic missiles for testing and training than the rest of the world combined.
“We expect this modernization to continue and this trajectory is consistent with Chinese President Xi’s vision for China’s military, which he laid out at the 19th Party Congress and stated that China’s military will be ‘fully transformed into a first-tier force’ by 2050,” Ashley said.
He added that China’s H-20 demonstrates the country’s “commitment to expanding the role of (the) centrality of nuclear forces in Beijing’s military aspirations,” adding that while China’s overall arsenal is smaller than Russia’s, it is just as concerning.
At the bottom of the article, it mentions a 2018 announcement that this craft would be unveiled in 2019. Fox News has the story here.
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Geezo Pete, can’t the Chinese even come up with an original design? That’s a Cylon raider, the original model, fer Pete’s sake!
This is why the Chinese come off as doofuses personified. They copy someone else’s stuff and claim they invented it. Whatta bunch of DOOFUSES!!!
Unless it’s a pandemic that started in China, then they blame someone else for starting it.
Yes, indeed, and that’s why I want to sue the pants off Xi JinPing.
Maybe he should take up making steel in his backyard. Mao would be SO proud if he could produce something like that.
If they’re gonna make Cylons, could they at least have the decency to mass-produce the Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, and Lucy Lawless models?
Lucy Lawless?
Yuck!
Lucy Lawless in 2004, when she was MILFtastic. Come on, man! This information is easily obtained! Google that shit!
COVED-25 Bat dispenser?
Hahaha.
U wins teh internetz 2day
The Chinese have always put quantity over quality when it comes to their Military Hardware, will it even be capable of taking off without falling apart?
IF their version of the batwinged Cylon Raider is like the cobalt blue & white china I bought from some chain store with a name like “Bombay”, well, the cups have all chipped. Two plates have chips are the glaze is starting to craze, meaning they weren’t fired properly and they’re not fit for use any more.
Based on that, and the fact that something the Chinese ceramics manufacturers call “porcelain” isn’t porcelain at all, but really cheap low-fired clayware, I’d say this “bold, spirited, relentlessly aggressive” mockup for a stealth bomber will not only show up on radar and on sonar, too, but won’t fly worth a crap.
All show and no “go”. And I still want to sue the pants off Xi JinPing.
You mean Xi “Pooh Bear” JinPing? I heard that he hates that comparison with a vengeance!
They work so hard at stealing shit it would’ve been easier to just do the work themselves.
She looks a little RETRO (1989).
There was one plane that the Skunk Works built that looked an awful lot like this proposed stealth bomber, but that was back in the 1950s.
Do the Chinese watch far too much American sci-fi?
I had an IA instructor that worked on that with some project Paperclip people, he was good teacher.
The real question is, since the Chinese version looks distinctly like the B-21, how much did they steal from us?
And also, will theirs really fly, or will it crash on takeoff? If it were South Korea, I’d say “go for it”, but they’re the Good Guys. China is NOT.
It is the artist’s style. It has that weird romanticized tech style artists used in the 80s to make thins look “futuristic”.
The actual bomber has a matte black look.
Battle: Los Angeles (2011) is on Netflix.
A Marine slugfest, but an ok sci-fi-war movie.
I am like:
Dude, where is your eye-pro?
Dude, stay with your team.
Dude, 360 security.
Dude, don’t take a funkin knee in the middle of the street! Take some funkin cover. Damn.
Hollywood sucks.
Well this makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I’d bet big money with the ChiCom government that 90% of the tech for this plane was stolen from us. Let’s hope they built it as well as North Korea does their missles and its first outting will be a fireball of a failure.
Of course it was, Sparks. We already have the B-21, and the Chinese version looks suspiciously like a copy of our plane.
So why are we sending production of anything really important to China? Just waiting for the miserable excuses to be posted by some slacker with a constant need to kowtow to China.
Preach it Sparks and Testify Ex. And of that stolen technology how much may have been available from the driver of a certain Senator from Commiefornia.
Domestic enemies have aided and abetted the foreign enemies for a long time. We may need those Battlestar Galactica Door Gunners before this is all over. Or, just nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way.
I have to agree with your last sentence, 5h/77th. It’s the only way to be sure.
Enabled by the Obama admin…
I’ll check out Monogram, Revell and Testors to see if they have that model in stock.
Time to equip the Taiwan ROC Navy with an AEGIS air defense capability. Both the Japanese and ROK navies have AEGIS. Time to give the Free Chinese on Taiwan a similar capability to defend their air space and sea lanes with same. Concurrently, the ROC Army now has a single ADA battalion with Patriot PAC-2/PAC-3; time to allow the ROCs to equip at least two more ADA battalions with Patriot PAC-3s. A few squadrons of F-35s for the ROC Air Force would be of help as well…
Not real stealthy, if this pic is accurate.
If that’s it, it’ll be radar hits a-go-go off that thing.
Not to mention its IR signature.
Looks like something out of the old “Thunderbirds” puppet TV series from the mid-1960s. Maybe that’s where the CHICOMs got their inspiration for the design.
Is that an HF antenna tail to winglets?
Probably vacuum tube avionics suite.
Artist’s conception- cool vapes from the winglet most likely. An HF long wire? Yeah, no one can fix an HF xmitter.
/sarc