Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread
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Well, we can't really say that because all we know about RQ-180 is that it's a large flying wing that has a wingspan of 40m. We don't know whether it has 1 large engine or 2 engine or anything
We don't definitively know what RQ-180 looks like.
However, "very similar to B-21" is a vague and non specific statement.
Just because the aircraft are "large, stealthy, flying wings" does not mean one is "more or less" one with a weapons bay.
Let us all recall how in WWII, most tactical combat aircraft (pursuit fighter, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, attackers) were monoplane airframes with a front piston propeller engine, however that didn't make them all "more or less" versions of the same aircraft.
They were all very much unique, and discussions about contemporary aircraft should be looking at the unique differences that exist as well.
That's a pretty bad illustration, all the edge alignments are off. The wings are narrower and the edge of the wings should align with the edge of the diamond body
No, it's B-2 sized, B-21 is much smaller.
I just traced the photo
I fixed it. Happy? This one requires some assumptions based on the shadows and the wingtips are covered by a white thing.
Story goes the H-20 program was subject to at least one, if not two major re-designs: one of which allegedly in response to a PLAAF requirement for a supersonic platform after coming to the conclusion that a subsonic platform akin to the B-2 or B-21 would be uncompetitive or otherwise inadequate.
Are you saying this is a XAC HALE drone derived from technology and a design originating from the H-20 program before the alleged requirement for a supersonic platform kicked in?!