H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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A CGI.
I.e.: that it obviously wasn't a real photo, but it wasn't doctored from the Northrop superbowl ad either.
Whether the shot was real or not was not as important so much as the fact that they were cleared to even suggest that there was a new bomber to emerge in the near future with a visual suggestion that it would be a flying wing.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
In light of recent H-20 rumors, it is important to find corroborative rhetoric from authoritative sources such as "big shrimps".
Well, FZGFZY has broken his/her silence on the matter with a poem about the H-XX bomber.
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Although FZGFZY is traditionally a quasi-reliable source, we don't know if this is from insider knowledge or just another personal interpretation of the CCTV report.
Well, FZGFZY has broken his/her silence on the matter with a poem about the H-XX bomber.
Translation: "Whether you believe it or not, she is there, moving slowly towards us."
Associated photo:
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Although FZGFZY is traditionally a quasi-reliable source, we don't know if this is from insider knowledge or just another personal interpretation of the CCTV report.
Since two years ago has there been a reason to not think that H-20 wew on the horizon?
Fzgfzy is somewhat vague of course but it is just another statement to add onto the indications or what we already know
SinoSoldier
Colonel
We might've known that the H-XX existed but a flurry of "big shrimp" reveals and semi-official leaks might indicate that the project is coming into public light.
Sorry, what I meant is that the project has been slowly coming into the public light over the last year at least.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Any idea what kind of badge/patch this is for? Related to H-XX, possibly?
Take note: despite part of the characters being blurred out, you can clearly make out the number "20" at the bottom of the image.
Take note: despite part of the characters being blurred out, you can clearly make out the number "20" at the bottom of the image.
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Global times is a tabloid though. Xinhua is more official I would imagine.The global times article is all over the place.
But the specific claim made by the Chinese military commentator guy about suggesting that H-20's initial flight might be "soon" I think is entirely sensible
You're right, his statement doesn't tell us anything more than what any of us know --- but I wasn't suggesting that he was giving us any new information. Rather I was challenging why you believed his statement to be strange or laughable, because unless I've missed something, I thought that the general impression was that the first H-20 has been under construction for a year or more now, to be expected to emerge in the next few years.
Of course, we've had various rumours and photos that may or may not have been related to H-20, but I was more referencing the various points weig mentioned in the last page to be some rather authoritative sources making direct reference to the next gen bomber.
First of course we have Gen Ma's statement
Then we have earlier this year the teasing of the bomber at the end of the XAC/AVIC video
And now we have this programme directly mentioning H-20 as well
All in the background with the understanding that the first prototype may have been under construction for a little while -- so I see nothing particularly outrageous about Song's saying "the first flight will come soon". If anything I'm a bit confused at your
I mean, the only way I can make sense of youris if you believed that Song was suggesting that we would see H-20 fly imminently like within a few months or something, but I think that would be a strange way to interpret it, because I don't think we've had any media personalities or commentators mention the imminent revelation of a new plane or ship or project within merely a few months of when it emerged. But what we have seen is references to projects that would emerge within a couple of years, which is how I'm interpreting his statement and would be entirely within the reasonable bounds of what we know of H-20's development so far.
What does the text say?