Cranked Wing?
Assuming the XAC anniversary video is accurate, the H-20 could be the world's first large cranked flying wing (the B-21 Raider appears to be a conventional flying wing, like the B-2). Iron Eagle
Popular Science: China teases its new stealth bomber
AVIC, the Chinese conglomerate, teased audiences worldwide with the first official glimpse of the country's first stealth bomber. The preview comes at the end of an eight-minute video made to celebrate the Xian Aircraft Corporation's (XAC) 60th anniversary on May 8, 2018. The giant flying wing aircraft appears shrouded in canvas inside a high tech hangar. The visual resemblance to Northrup Grumman's 2015 Super Bowl ad showing off the B-21 Raider stealth bomber is presumably deliberate. It is likely AVIC's way of proclaiming that it's arrived, fast on American heels, to the exclusive club of strategic bombers.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese are ambitious.
3 comments:
If they could maybe make a passenger car that can pass western safety standards then maybe they would be on to something.
Yeah or maybe pay us 100bn dollars for the clearly copied design? And that's a fair price ..you get fortune cookie for each design you pay for, ok? Deal!
Now what does your fortune cookie read? Let's see. ..."Steal from us one more time, and we'll build artificial islands around Taiwan "
Oh what a weirdly coincidental fortune cookie. Ah well.. let's just see what happens. Oh and we want another 100bn for the undersea warfare plans you stole in February/March. And don't forget to tip us either, you cheap bastards
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