I'm leaning towards the latter, it looks a bit too small to be a strategic bomber.
H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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Are they going to show it to the public? I thought it was a private event?
Apparently not a private event. Though the question remains just how close to the eyes/cameras will the plane be when presented, and from what angles would it be visible. I wouldn't be surprised if the invitees and news crews will be allowed outside a hangar and then at one moment the hangar door will open to show the plane, from few dozen meters, from the front only, and perhaps not well lit or strategically lit to accentuate certain lines but to hide other lines of the plane.
Did Grumman hire the same people who made the AVIC promotion video in 2021 "The next"? The B-21 looks exactly the same as the one in AVIC video except the drip of the fabric.
H-20
B-21
The videos aspect ratio are different which made H-20 flatter and wider, this is just a matter of the footage format. The aircraft are identical in that the intakes location and prominence are the same.
I can call Grumman copying AVIC already now without waiting for the revealing.
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NG promotion video came before. AVIC copied NG
Yeah, it was a nice trolling ! Like saying that anybody can pull out that kind of promotion...
nice bait :dI'm amused how the B-21 is now a "6th gen" aircraft. Now it will be repeated ad nauseam by f-16.net types.
Was the B-2 considered a 5th gen aircraft? I've always associated that with fighter aircraft, but I feel like you could apply it to most stealth platform / very-low observable aircraft as that was basically the defining feature.
Regardless of what value you assign to it, this will be the first brand new strategic bomber in how many decades?