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

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Gloire_bb said:
You're looking at it as some sort of demonstration, like from space race. China isn't doing things because they're hard instead of easy here, strategic bombers of all kinds are an 80 years old achievement.
China's getting a capability. Not absolutely urgentlg, but as of mid-2020s lack of it already harms China directly. The most optimal path to this capability is subsonic flying wing.

It isn't unachievable. It will just produce a worse result, at much higher technical risk, for more money, just to satisfy egos. Which is a type of well-intentioned mismanagement more harmful than actual corruption.
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What is the PLA planning to do about the B-21 and B-2, in your view?


Amistrophy said:
It’s not really an ego problem. If what’s being posited is true, that expanded air intercept capabilities ala J36 air frigates and networked ISR ala satellite/starlink/CCA make any subsonic aircraft as good as dead or extremely vulnerable to interdiction —VLO, ULO, ELO whatever madeup term is being thrown around now — then either you make the aircraft survivable (by going fast) or you might as well not make a bomber at all. (yay for the PLARF I guess, yay for strike aircraft, rip for H20)

tldr; the point is that B2 B-21 type aircraft and evolutionary type development along this doctrinal tree is dead. these aircraft are cooked in a 6th gen fighter populated airspace.
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Exactly.
 
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Wrought said:
It was a rhetorical question. The total lack of evidence means folks should just shut up already instead of polluting the thread with empty noise.
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Speculation is what a defense forum does. Cause if something is already revealed and mature, it becomes old news and no longer interesting.
 
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