China Stealth Bomber Concept

China Stealth Bomber Concept

China Stealth Bomber Looks Like Northrop YF-23

Not much on this except commitment to do something like the B-2 which has 7500 mile range like the original B-52 and B-36 intercontinental bombers. The Badger based bombers have much shorter range.

China Stealth Bomber

Proposal looks like a scaled up Northrop YF-23, which lost to conventional looking YF-22

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-10/24/content_30393342.htm

China will develop long-range strategic stealth bombers, Professor Wu Guohui of the National Defense University said in a recent interview with people.com.cn.

The model of China's stealth bomber [people.com.cn]

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/630ba7ce9a26

those are just plastic and computer-generated models you’re looking at. But in the past, models of new Chinese warplanes have appeared shortly before full-scale, working prototypes.

Case in point: the J-31, Beijing’s answer to America’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Models of the twin-engine stealth fighter appeared at trade shows years before the actual J-31 took off on its debut flight last fall

More recently, Chinese hackers have also stolen blueprints of the F-35.

The apparent Chinese stealth bomber could be Beijing’s answer to the new Russian PAK-DA as well as to the U.S. Air Force’s B-2, which has been in frontline use for 20 years. But in contrast to these rival subsonicplanes, the Chinese design could be optimized for supersonic flight. Hence the highly-swept wings.

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/English/publish.aspx?cnid=498&p=19940

China Tests Stealth Bomber: Neighboring States on High Alert

According to a semi-official Chinese media report, China's domestically-developed "Xian H-8" stealth strategic bomber has successfully undergone flight trials. It is said that this bomber will carry a new type of cruise missile and will be capable of attacking North America, which is a cause of great concern in many countries. "We must confront the reality of China's ceaseless military build-up," said Taiwanese military specialist Sung Chao-wen. "Not only does China pose a military threat to Taiwan, but bordering states such as Japan, Korea, and India also can’t ignore this menace and must take precautions." Regardless of whether the reports of the successful test flight of the H-8 are correct, the news still suggests that China is continuing to develop new weapons in an effort to expand its global influence. The photograph of the H-8 carried in the Chinese media is actually most likely an image of an A-12 carrier-borne stealth attack aircraft used by the US Navy in the late 1990's. The reports of the aircraft's successful test flight are quite possibly not reliable. Western military analysts believe that China lacks the necessary technology to effectively use stealth materials or develop high-power engines. Even if China has stolen American stealth bomber technology, they probably would not have had enough time to successful fabricate and assemble a working aircraft. But regardless of whether the "H-8" actually exists, from the point of view of personal honor and our national interest, although there have previously been a few cases where China's initial propaganda was followed by a denial in the official media, it is very clear that China's military expansion and ambitions are not faltering. Even superpowers like the US must take steps against this threat. Shouldn’t we also heighten our vigilance and seriously address the growing military imbalance across the Taiwan Straits? (The Ministry of National Defense prepared the news release and Taiwan News translated it into English.) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/11/is_this_chinas_new_design_for_a_stealth_bomber The latest plane resembles a cross between Russia's PAK DA stealth bomber design, it's T-50 PAK FA stealth fighter and Northrop's YF-23 Black Widow -- the stealth jet that lost the contest to be the world's first fifth-generation fighter to Lockheed Martin's YF-22 Raptor. (The cockpit also resembles this fictional monstrosity.)

Chinese Web forums claim the new stealth bomber might have a length of 91-feet and a wingspan of 72-feet. This is smaller than all of the U.S. and Russia's strategic bombers such as the B-1 Lancer or Tu-22M but slightly larger than the U.S.'s F-15E Strike Eagle tactical bomber. The jet is also rumored to have an operational radius of just under 2000-miles. 

r rumors about China investing in a fleet of Russian-designed Tu-22M supersonic bombers were reportedly untrue.