Posted on 12/09/2020 2:21:06 PM PST by Mariner
A report on China’s new, upcoming bomber paints a picture of a big, stealthy plane capable of flying halfway across the Pacific, laden with up to 45 tons of bombs.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) claims the bomber will make China an intercontinental power, but don’t be surprised if the real plane falls short of its capabilities.
The Xi’an H-20, according to the SCMP, is a large, stealthy bomber under development for China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force. The bomber would supplement and eventually replace the H-6, a 1950s-era design that China has steadily upgraded over the decades. The H-20, which China announced in 2016, is expected to be revealed sometime in the next year or two.
The H-20 is depicted as having a flying wing design that trades speed for range and stealth. According to SCMP’s mainland sources, the H-20 will have a bomb load of 45 tons, far more than the B-52H Stratofortress’s 35 tons and the B-2 Spirit’s 20 tons.
The SCMP article cites unnamed sources who say the bomber will also have a range of at least 12,000 kilometers, or at 7,456 miles—an impressive range that would put Hawaii within reach of the H-20. It would also put all 50 U.S. states within striking distance if the H-20 took an Arctic flight route. By comparison, the B-52H has an unrefueled combat range of 8,800 miles, while the B-2 has an unrefueled range of 6,904 miles.
The SCMP also cites mainland reports that say the H-20 will be equipped with nuclear weapons, forming one leg of a nuclear triad that also includes nuclear missile submarines and land-based missiles. The bomber will also carry four “stealth or hypersonic” missiles.
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My cousin serves in Sokor, close to the DMZ. He was formerly at Red Cloud..
He told me years ago when he was on leave that EVERY GI in S. Kor KNOW they are not there to defend Korea. It’s to CHECKMATE China. That’s what those bases are: so the chicoms wont even come close to our interests. We dont have those bases for decoration.
Meet you in Guam azzholes
China isn’t intending this to be used against western powers. China intends to use this against third-world countries with precious resources that don’t play nice when China marches in to extract them.
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True. Like the Philippines, for example. Strip mining whole mountain ranges. Chinese puppet Duterte ordered the locals to allow this. Much of the devastating flooding in the last typhoon last month was due this in Cagayan...
This plane will not be a threat to the newly minted Soviet States of America...
By the third month of the Harris-Pelousy administration, there will be peace & harmony with red china...
“More Chinese apologist.”
How do you figure?
The H-20 is real. The claimed performance is vaporware.
Donald Sutherland to Robert Ryan in The Dirty Dozen, “very pretty General, but can they fight”? Powered by Russian surplus or commercial air line engines. Which is why they contracted with Boeing to build, in China, new airliners so they can steal American technology and manufacturing techniques to build military quality engines.
Do the Chinese deliberately apply dismal quality control in the products they sell in the West so we are lulled into thinking their hi-tech military equipment is trash, when in reality it works occasionally and lasts more than a few weeks? Surely their stuff isn’t this bad because it’s the best they can do.
They have QC problems throughout their supply chain for everything.
It’s cultural.
Russia steals designs from us and makes a crappy copy.
China steals from Russia and makes an even crappier copy.
Like those carrier planes the Chinese use. Very underpowered and cannot carry much ordnance when flown off a carrier.
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New ones under construction are near copies of CVN Ford with a working EMALS launch systems
I’ve had some odd Chinese guns, they all go bang.
They just need their puppet Biden installed. China will then threaten war and Biden will surrender the country.
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The HarrisBiden will do what its boss, Xi Jinping, tells them to do. Along those lines, the Biden has pledged to turn the US over to UN control.
The distance from Beijing to Honolulu is 5,070 miles.
The distance from Beijing to Guam is 2,510 miles.
The distance from Beijing to Los Angeles is 6,264 miles.
They will invade Taiwan when they have sufficient means to transport troops across 100 miles of ocean - a few years away at least
That’s the mil of WWII, Korea, and Nam. Today’s mil is a social experiment and little else
Trump would. Kamala would enable the Chinese.
Surely their stuff isn’t this bad because it’s the best they can do.
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On the other hand, many of their Ghost Cities are designed to look good from a distance or in a film, but up close they are horribly constructed crumbling wreaks - they even use cardboard as a concrete filler.
In China its all about making money - quality is not a consideration, getting the most money for as small a cost as possible is. Do you really think that General Tso’s Chicken or Beef is chicken or beef? Have you checked the neighborhood for missing dogs and cats?
They’ve been absolutely destroying Sub-Saharan Africa. They come in and work out a deal with the government which basically amounts to a gigantic bribe, then they bring in Chinese workers to strip mine the resources, and when the locals rise up because their water is poisoned and they aren’t even getting any jobs or income out of the deal, the Chinese press the government to use their military to put down the locals.
They’ve been absolutely destroying Sub-Saharan Africa. They come in and work out a deal with the government which basically amounts to a gigantic bribe, then they bring in Chinese workers to strip mine the resources, and when the locals rise up because their water is poisoned and they aren’t even getting any jobs or income out of the deal, the Chinese press the government to use their military to put down the locals.
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Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos (and now the Philippines) come to mind. China is strip mining mountains in the Philippines to build its fake islands and extract Rare Earth metals
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/59379/chinas-mining-occupation-of-the-philippines
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