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

Deino

Deino

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by78 said:
What? Surely a good PS joke... surely... If not PSed, this could be the Lijian drone, although I don't recall seeing this particular photo from four years back, and Google image search turned up nothing.

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IMO clearly a FAKE ! ... albeit a funny one :)


Just an idea in regard to that unknown RCS-test-shape or UAV ... I found this model shown at the Zhuhai 2016 called "Star Glory" (thanks flateric for help) ... and also the dimensions would fit !

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Totoro

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Talking strictly about that Stary glory model and its specs, the uav doesn't seem to be geared for combat. It has quite a wingspan, compared to its length and weight. It seems closer to a US Polecat UAV, more like a pure Recon craft. Then again, flight altitude is a bit low... But Polecat also had even longer wingspan.

Payload is hard to speculate on since we don't know the requirements - how many fuel is it supposed to carry (8 hour endurance points to not much fuel) and we don't know if some (heavy) radar absorbing structures were used, again making taking away from payload. Perhaps engines aren't efficient, who knows. Polecat used 13 kn engines... does China have anything available in that performance bracket?
 
danielchin

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a sketch was released by a usually very credible guy on Weibo showing a YCHZJ( long range bomber) "DL". lots of CGs immediately followed, all depicted it as a three engines bomber (although the sketch looks like four engines).
What do you think? another fanboy arts or the future H-20?


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Lethe

Lethe

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From the size of the cockpit relative to the airframe, it looks too small to be a strategic bomber in the class of e.g. the B-2.

Mind you, I think a smaller "theatre bomber" could be very useful for China's purposes. But all the messaging to date has been that H-X is a strategic bomber.
 
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Richard Santos

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Another difference, b-2's engine exhausted are completely shielded from below, providing a very high level of stealth from below are all sides, as befitting a high altitude deep penetration bomber expected to overfly enemy ground based air defense and ground sensor network over considerable distance without providing the enemy with a track.

This hypothetical bomber seems optimized for low observability from ahead and to the side, but less stealthy from the rear, perhaps comparable to tactical stealthy fighters like the f-22. This suggests it is more of a tactical strike role that does not involve operation deep into multilayered air defenses.
 
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