China’s Secret H-20 Stealth Bomber Could Soon Hit the Skies

national interest ^ | 7/13/2022 | by Caleb Larson

[RomanSoldier19]

The Chinese Communist Party is dropping hints that the country’s first stealth bomber will soon be revealed.

Speaking at a rally meeting, Ge Heping, Party chief of the Chinese Flight Test Establishment under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), asked “all personnel involved in the development of the aircraft to fully realize the extreme importance of completing this mission,” Global Times, a Chinese state-owned media group, reported.

However, neither the precise nature of the aircraft nor what its designation would be were announced. It is anticipated, however, that China’s much-anticipated H-20 strategic stealth bomber is the aircraft in question.

China’s H-20 stealth bomber has not been officially revealed, though the bomber is expected to share a number of design details with the U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and, potentially, the B-21 Raider. A single promotional video, released in 2018, showed the H-20’s general outline by way of a blanket-covered airframe, which lacked any prominent rear tail control surfaces. Though the rendering drew lots of attention, the final production aircraft may differ from promotional images.

Like the B-2, the H-20 features what strongly appears to be a flying wing design. These kinds of tailless aircraft have an inherent stealth advantage, as a lack of tail offers enemy radar fewer surfaces that can be picked up by radar and “ping” a return signal.

[RomanSoldier19]

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[Fester Chugabrew]

Remind me again. How fast is a laser beam?

[Nifster]

Won’t matter There is no laser weapon

[Yo-Yo]

Remind me again. How fast is a laser beam?

[Terry L Smith]

i’m all so bored!!

[Sirius Lee]

Better for their bomber to hit the sky rather than just hitting the ground I suppose...

[central_va]

Freepers tell me all ships and planes are obsolete and drones will do everything. It’s what they say.

[HYPOCRACY]

[Dr. Sivana]

Better for their bomber to hit the sky rather than just hitting the ground I suppose...

Why can't it do both?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Not yet, but I doubt far off.

[Alter Kaker]

Laser weapons have inherent limitations (super short effective ranges through the atmosphere). The problem with stealth aircraft is tracking them with radar at range (duh). If you can track one well enough to paint it with a laser you can also fire an anti-aircraft missile at it.

[sten]

and 25 yrs ago they could barely make bicycles.

it’s almost as if someone gave them the designs and modernized their manufacturing base...

[BobL]

Doesn’t matter - we spend 10 TIMES what China spends on their military, therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!

[Fester Chugabrew]

I may be completely off base, but do we not have satellites capable of maintaining visual on flying objects, including infrared? But yes, laser currently limited, yet may (with improvement) be best counter to hypersonic and stealth aircraft.

[Alter Kaker]

I may be completely off base, but do we not have satellites capable of maintaining visual on flying objects, including infrared?

No. And if we were to launch satellites with that capacity, they'd be sitting ducks for Chinese anti-satellite weapons.

[butlerweave]

or the ground

[Rappini]

Have the Chicoms ever had an original thought without stealing secrets. Except for Spaghetti.

[MercyFlush]

“Could”

Lol.

[Rannug]

Surely yu jest.