GJ-X could potentially also easily carry the notional 1000km range AAM we discussed not long ago, a concept also looked at (and tested?) across the pond recently.
Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G)
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Speculative bomber wingman theories aside it seems pretty likely to me this thing will be fully capable of carrying out strike missions on its own by design, ie any possible CCA role being secondary with autonomous strike missions being primary capability rather than other way around. Anything else would make very little sense with (among other things) the number of simultaneous sorties/targets prosecuted being severely limited (by number of available H-20s), crippling the otherwise invaluable 2-3IC strike capability this would afford.
Looked at yes, though I don't think they have actually tested such missiles.
Anyway... you need to lock targets and at this range and it will be quite hard.
Maybe it could be done by data link with support aircrafts closer to the target to get it home. In that case, being stealthy is not a big gain with a 1000km AAM, an H6 would do the trick in most cases.
A see a CCA launched far from land from a H6 with a couple of shorter range missiles way better than a huge missile on an expensive rig with support aircrafts in the kill zone.
As I said if you want to compare two measures you need to use the same process and same tools and/or know the tolerance.Like this
You have done a poor job of overlaying it. You need to make sure it's precise. Use transparency tools to make it more accurate if needed.
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Using the same overlay method via GE you get 44.5m wingspan for both, with unknown tolerance but probably +/- 1m
In other words either both are closer to 46m or both are closer to 40m
You can't simply compare measures by one party using one tool against measures by another party using another tool.
I’m not entirely sure why we are so fixated on the exact size when the it is obvious that GJ- is a B-21 class aircraft. That’s enough for me.
That's because you measured the shadow and not the airframe. If you measure the airframe, it comes out to be ~42 and ~45 for B-21
I imagine TWZ also measured the airframe itself. You can make a case for either but at this point we're limited by the quality of the images and should just leave it at that. When newer and more precise information comes out, we can update our understanding.
