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

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Guys, I'll be honest, but it's annoying! It's terribly annoying that in some flagship threads people constantly digress from the actual topic and talk about what-if fantasies like 36,000 t XXL-aircraft carrier or now in the H-20 thread: You are discussing a mega-XXL bomber carrying two JL-1 ALBMs for WW-3 - openly named that way - scenarios as if it is likely, realistic or already a given fact.

IMO we are already as far away from what's realistic for the H-20 like the aforementioned 360k t aircraft carrier and therefore all this fuss - IMO nonsense - is now moved into this thread as well as any political BS including openly discussing WW-3 scenarios was deleted.

Either you continue here or better leave it.



Deino, I'm going discuss this in more detail with you in private, but at this stage the idea of H-20 being sized to carry two JL-1 sized ALBMs is actually reasonable.

The problem is that the previous consensus from 2010s to 2022-23 about H-20 being "only" a standard flying wing is no longer the case, and recent rumours from the grapevine are indicating that it seems the PLA may be prioritizing the importance of the next generation bomber carrying long/large payloads internally, which naturally will require long internal weapons bays.


Such an aircraft is not too extraordinary and nowhere near as unrealistic as the idea of a 360,000 ton aircraft carrier -- something the size of LAP, powered by four non afterburning WS-10 class engines, aimed for only high subsonic speeds (not supersonic) is actually fairly in line with reality and could conceivably have two long weapons bays for something sized for JL-1 (as opposed to two wide weapons bays on B-2).
In fact, in terms of weight, such a bomber would not be that much heavier than a B-2.


I agree that discussions around such a platform need to be careful to not venture into geopolitics and WWIII situations too much, but I strongly believe the idea of a "H-20 sized to carry two JL-1s" very much is a reasonable one within the bounds of credible debate.

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I'm going to lock this thread and also the other thread for a while until we are able to reconcile this situation because otherwise having two parallel threads can get messy.
 
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