H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)

latenlazy said:

I wouldn’t follow 草根 too seriously. He’s a great drawer but he’s not an information source. What he does best is aggregating information, throwing in a few of his own ideas into them, and turning it into fun speculative designs.

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That might be so, or not. By now, I'm not inclined to take your word for it.

Hyperwarp said:

I hope it will be a pure flying wing and no tails.

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I share your preference.
Several "insiders" have mentioned the tail. Of course there is no guarantee either way.

If there is no tail, the images above will be among many that were more or less wrong. If it is a flying wing with a tail, they would be among the first to show that.

Klon said:

That might be so, or not. By now, I'm not inclined to take your word for it.



I share your preference.
Several "insiders" have mentioned the tail. Of course there is no guarantee either way.

If there is no tail, the images above will be among many that were more or less wrong. If it is a flying wing with a tail, they would be among the first to show that.

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Maybe they are going to play it safe. Sacrifice a bit of stealth for stability.

Building flying wing UCAV's is one thing but building something the size of the B-2 is another. B-2 owes a lot to the work done by Jack Northrop on the XB-35/YB-49 during the mid to late 1940s. B-2 and the YB-49 have almost the exact same width. So that is a very long learning curve.

China may play it safe before going fully flying wing.

I doubt whether 40 year old work on the xb-35/49 really did much for the computational fluid dynamics era B-2. Dimensional similarity hardly denotes close design lineage. A pure flying wing 30 years further into the era of computational fluid dynamics than the B-2 is hardly playing it unsafe, it’s not like a bomber this size will be performing any radical off axis maneuver.

The long time in between B-2 and XB-35/YB-49 (the long learning curve) was not really about aerodynamical challenge itself. It was the lack of fly control device that was quick enough to respond to the inherent instability of a fly wing design. The control principle was well known since WWII or earlier. The problem was without high speed computerized FBW, no human pilot is able to fly the thing safely. That obstacle was only removed by the time of B-2. And that is not an issue any more for any country that has decades of knowledge and practice within FBW. I won't be surprised if China, Russia and EADS make a B-2 equivalent (fly control wise) any time today IF they want.

Hi Guys. If I'm correct, the big Chinese military parade is set to take place soon...and that the H-20 will have a starring role. Do we have a date and time for this? Googled around a bit, but can seem to find a fixed date.

No, it won't appear, at least no one expect that.

ILikeChina said:

No, it won't appear, at least no one expect that.

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... at least no one with a sense of reality, however some obscure news ticker eagerky picked it up and hyped a story.

Stratton said:

Hi Guys. If I'm correct, the big Chinese military parade is set to take place soon...and that the H-20 will have a starring role. Do we have a date and time for this? Googled around a bit, but can seem to find a fixed date.

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The fleet review? That happens April 23rd.

This is an Air Force matter. And besides it is not in service. It took J-20 some time in service before participating in public actions. I imagine the same will be for H-20.

Biscuits said:

The fleet review? That happens April 23rd.

This is an Air Force matter. And besides it is not in service. It took J-20 some time in service before participating in public actions. I imagine the same will be for H-20.

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Even more since there is nothing to show. Surely some will say, it was secretly built and already testflown ... but I'm sure XAC will not and cannot hide a huge flying wing design.

Deino said:

Even more since there is nothing to show. Surely some will say, it was secretly built and already testflown ... but I'm sure XAC will not and cannot hide a huge flying wing design.

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Yes, it would have to pass prototyping stage first before even coming into service. And THEN we would need to wait months for it to make public appearance.