It was incredibly doubtful that they would have rolled out a new bomber at the parade.
first problem are they really going to try and roll that mother down a street? If we use the B2 as a base for size. That’s a bomber roughly 52 meters wide. That’s a big bird to roll down the street.
Second you can’t just fly it. If the aircraft hasn’t made its maiden flight and started testing flying it over a major city would
Be an act of idiocy. If something went wrong and it fell from the sky could you imagine the horror. Not humiliation but horror. Beijing is not the place for a Plane crash.
As such you only want to fly something pretty well into at least flight tests. Towing demonstration pieces even mock ups is fine but as we saw at the Russian Victory day parade when a crewman stalled a T15 Armata. You don’t want to rush things. It’s fine to have troops holding new rifles as long as they don’t shoot them. It’s fine to roll around new missile housings, drone Mockups and demonstrators but you don’t fly them if they aren’t ready for prime time.
so the. How do you do it? You can’t fly it it’s two big to tow though a major city what then?
“We break from the parade to the factory where despite having not a single VIP on hand they are going to roll out the new Bombers...”
Not happening. No way this is a major prestige program. They want the VIPs from the party and PLAAF on hand. They want Red carpet and gift bags. Smoke machines laser lights and dancing girls. Photo ops of Xi in the cockpit smiling and waving. Heck even better if a major American official is in country.
Yeah...So...
Nobody saw a VLO Bomber or a Supersonic LRB at the October Parade. I saw the military parade to the fullest ( I hope many of others did too). It was very neat to see many strategic deterrence tools. I was let down a bit for no show of the SB or LRB. The reasons are more likely to be that the product has not escaped the prototyping stage and or has been deemed too secretive and sensitive for such an occasion. Certainly, It is best shown flying over enemy territory rather than over Beijing.
Ok so it’s September 2019 where is this bomber ?
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I think it would be a good idea to have a common reply to this question since people genuinely seemed to think it was reasonable to believe that there might even be a chance of seeing H-20 at the parade.
Let's make this clear -- at Chinese national day parades they do not show equipment unless it has entered service in at least some form, which directly means that it must have finished development.
There has been no instance to memory of the PLA showing prototypes of new weapons or weapons still in development during a national day parade or even an anniversary parade like VJ day or PLA anniversary parade.
For example, J-10B first flew in late 2008. With the 60th anniversary parade in October 2009, J-10B did not show up during the parade because it was still in development.
For H-20, there has been no indication that it has even been rolled out yet, let alone made its maiden flight or finished development (!!!).
Therefore, there should have been no reasonable expectation to believe that the H-20 would have made any sort of appearance at the National Day parade.
Some articles which suggested we might see H-20 at the parade should have been roundly dismissed and did not deserve to be taken seriously.
Again -- only weapons that have entered service and finished development turn up at the national day parades. H-20 has not even flown yet, let alone finished development and entered service, so it goes without saying that H-20 would not have turned up at the parade in any form.