My point is if you’re going for intercontinental ranges then there’s no point firing them from the air to begin with.
H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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My point is if you’re going for intercontinental ranges then there’s no point firing them from the air to begin with.
The survivability of B-21 is in context of it conducting much closer in raids.
The H-20 we are talking about would be conducting initial high end missions at distances of 2000-3000km away from its target.
As for planform, what you've depicted is somewhat close to what I also imagine but I think it is a little bit too extreme. Something like below (with approximate characteristics), with B-2 for scale.
It's just for illustrative purposes of something I have in mind, the exact detailed numbers aren't so important (for a 10mg or even 15m length weapon bay you could probably make do with a smaller aircraft, like 30m length, 24m span)
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FriedRiceNSpice
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Fair enough, might as well just make the missile itself larger if additional range is required at that point. But wasn't it the Guancha trio suggesting that ALBM even larger than the Beijing hammer are in the pipeline (or maybe I misinterpreted)?
Exactly.
Where is the plots from？
It's actually from a Chinese study dated all the way back to 2016, here is the original unmodified graph.
Hopeless Diamond is hopeless for a reason.
What would be the rough range and payload of this aircraft?
The term was coined in the 80s, technology has advanced enough to allow stable flight with basically even a brick.
Well no it clearly hasn't, seeing as we don't have a whole bunch of diamonds flying around right now. Even a less ambitious shape like J-36 is still considered a big deal.