Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Is China Building It's Own Version Of The B-2 Bomber?


Is This China's New Stealth Bomber? -- Dan Lamothe, Foreign Policy

For years, the world has watched as China has moved toward developing a new, long-range stealth bomber. It received the first of them -- the Hongzha-6K -- last year, alarming analysts who suggested in a November report to Congress that it could potentially be used to carry nuclear weapons.

Photographs circulating online this week raise the prospect that the twin-engine Hongzha-6K may not be the only plane the Chinese are preparing to field. Grainy images show a B-2-like bomber taxiing down a runway on what it is purportedly Chinese soil. They were posted on the Chinese website Tiexue with speculation that it's yet another new advanced stealth bomber for the Beijing's rapidly-advancing military.

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My Comment: It looks like a version of the B-2 .... but until someone produces a better quality picture, this talk of a new Chinese stealth bomber is just speculation.

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