This is just an fanart made by artist without aircraft engineering basics.
H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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PiSigma
"the engineer"
Doesn't sound like anything deino said.... Deino when did u get the new job at Jamestown foundation?Speculation is certainly making the rounds!
"Andreas Rupprecht, a Chinese military aviation scholar with the US-based Jamestown Foundation, has said that the bomber's been in development since the late 1990s or early 2000s."
Exactly ... I only mentioned, when development started and when it "could" be unveiled. But I still stick to my predictions I don't expect that beast to be unveiled so soon and especially NEVER EVER during the 2019's parade flyby.
But I won't complain if I would be proven wrong.
Concerning a new job for Jamestown ... ??? I must admit not yet planned...
SinoSoldier
Colonel
We all appreciate you posting these kinds of updates, but would appreciate it more if you could post the original text along with a translation or at least your best attempt at a translation.
In this case, the OP made it clear that it is only his own imagination and not anything official.
In this case, the one sentence adequately conveyed the intended meaning. Plus, I know that some really suffer if exposed to the results of machine translation.
Yes, but that's not the part where the tail was mentioned.
Of course, I don't know if the poster actually knows anything about the bomber or the tail situation specifically. I partly posted it as it has now been brought up several times, which could be taken as increasing support for this rumor.
That would imply that the level of Chinese FBW engineering hasn't caught up to US levels in the eighties. There's no reason to think China's aerospace establishment is that backward. God, I hope not. There's no immediate need for a stealth bomber, if they need five or ten more years to get the design right they should take the time.
I'm not too enthusiastic about it either. There is, of course, the possibility that the stealth penalty would be small, but it's hard to imagine anything more than a small improvement in maneuverability in return. More likely it would serve to compensate for other deficiencies, as you said.
On the other hand, China operates drones with the flying-wing/blended-wing configuration, so the design and its flight control intricacies are not wholly unfamiliar. It's certainly not trivial to scale it up, but there's no reason to think the problems are insurmountable.