recently a chinese official has announced plans to perform a test flight for an important
aircraft with critical strategic and historical significance while fueling the theory that the
long-rumored h-20 strategic stealth bomber could make its initial flight soon ge heping the party
chief of the chinese flight test establishment which is a division of the state-owned aviation
industry corporation of china made the statement during a rally meeting the statement was issued to
organize personnel involved in the test state-run global times reported citing the press release gee
encouraged everyone who was involved in the development of this aircraft to realize how
important it is to complete this mission stay till the end to find out why chinese air and
naval capabilities are insufficient to support the h6n welcome back to elon musk evolution where we
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in today's video elon musk will be updating us about china's stealth bomber that will be
launched soon and let's get started according to musk the chinese military has occasionally
offered a few updates on h20 in january 2021 a scene from the video of the services recruitment
highlighted the flying wing design of the next generation and long-range strategic stealth bomber
which is being developed for the chinese people's liberation army air force an advertising video
for avik that was revealed in may 2018 showed that the flying wing design was comparable to the usb-2
bomber a similar aircraft's front outline was also wrapped in a blanket in the video
on july 7 an anonymous chinese expert who follows the development of china's aviation industry
spoke to the global times saying that given all of these official hints the speculation
from the public that the new aircraft could be the h20 makes sense but it might just be
an over-interpretation other expected candidates for the unidentified aircraft contain the alleged
carrier-based j-15 fighter jet with a catapult launcher and the alleged j-35 stealth fighter jet
he indicated that these jets are anticipated to board the fujian an 80 000 ton class aircraft
carrier with electromagnetic catapults which undeniably has strategic and historical worth
so are you guys aware of the features of the chinese h-20 stealth bomber
the h-20 is apparently in its developmental phase however its appearance has not yet been
disclosed to the public but it is said that it can carry long-range strikes several western
military experts have observed that it might be a game changer for the chinese military
the development of china's strategic bomber was first ever mentioned in reports that came out in
2016 and later the reports proposed that china is going to start mass producing the aircraft
in the middle of the 2020s musk explained the h-20 stealth bomber might be armed with common
nuclear-tipped or hypersonic stealth cruise missiles and it is sending a strong signal
to the us and its pacific partners in an era of rising geo-strategic tensions in reality china has
kept its specifications very secret which is why there isn't much information about the h-20 bomber
the information which is available publicly on the h-20 is negligible due to its confidential nature
according to chinese recent reports musk stated they have only mentioned the coming of a specific
type of aircraft with strategic and historical importance but photos that are released by china
north industries corporation or norinco in its modern weaponry monthly magazine show that the
fighter has a flying wing design a weapons bay two adjustable tail wings and frontal airborne radar
as we have mentioned previously the xi'an h20 has a familiar flying wing shape that looks like the
b2 spirit of the us air force according to the same images the h-20 also has stealth air intakes
on both sides and is covered in dark gray radar absorbent material h20 may have a four thousand to
five thousand mile combat radius and carry a wide range of precision guided weapons such as smart
bombs land attack cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles it will have a maximum takeoff weight
of 200 tons and also a payload of 45 tons and it is said that it will fly at high subsonic speeds
the h20 is said to have a range of at least 12 000 kilometers or 7456 miles hawaii would be
within the h-20s reach with this exciting range in addition all 50 states of the us would be
within its target range if the h-20 flew over the arctic musk revealed apart from finishing china's
nuclear triad the h-20 may perform aerial shows to demonstrate its capabilities to china's enemies a
2018 study by rand notes stated that china has been conducting long-range bombers over flights
over the pacific for four main reasons the h-20 allows china to threaten u.s targets beyond the
first and second island chains and advance china's air power projection capabilities the very first
reason is that the h-20 bomber over flights over doubtful oceanic areas such as the south china sea
and senkaku islands which shows china's resolve to defend these territories against potential enemies
such as japan vietnam and the philippines as it is not clear how these potential regional adversaries
can counter a danger such as the h20 the second reason is that the overflights provide training
chances for pla af pilots and also realistic environments in which they might be expected
to work with the us in a war situation to take advantage of gaps in the pacific region's u.s and
allied air defenses h-20 practice flights might feature strategies techniques and methods the
third one is that long-range bomber flights with the h-20 can become showpieces of china's growing
military and economic might for domestic audiences thereby increasing the legitimacy of the chinese
communist party in the eyes of the chinese people according to musk as part of china's
efforts the h-20 may finally feature in-bomber overflights within and around taiwan's air defense
identification zone to pressurize the taiwanese leadership to keep in line with china's interests
advise against any ideas for independence and expose taiwan's military weakness by highlighting
the incapability of the us to assist in the event of an invasion even though the pla air force was
responsible for most of china's early nuclear testing its strategic nuclear deterrent is built
around the pla rocket force and pla navy using a variety of land and sea based ballistic missiles
it was noted in a 2020 paper by the hoover institution think tank that even though
china is one of the three countries that run strategic bombers along with the us and russia its
long-range bomber force is notably laggard as its backbone is jion h6 which is based on the 1950s
soviet tupolev tu-16 bomber the first locally produced h6 was completed in 1968. the h6 was used
to drop nine nuclear devices at the lopner test site however the nuclear delivery capabilities
that the h6 offered reduced in importance with the increased development in ballistic missile
technology while the h6 is an old design it has modern engines with the most recent h6n variant
and is capable of mounting air launched cruise missiles for standoff strike missions most u.s
experts view it as a long-range ship hunter against u.s carrier battle groups because the
h6n variant can carry nuclear-tipped air-launched ballistic missiles the h-6 is considered a theater
bomber with a strategic role which means that without aerial refuelling and standoff missiles it
cannot strike targets at intercontinental ranges unlike the usb-52 and b-2 and the russian tu-95
and tu-160 musk finally explained in september 2020 while presenting an h6n launching alcms
at u.s naval base guam the pla air force released a video that implied that such long-range strikes
against u.s forces and facilities in the pacific may be its primary mission instead of being a
long-range ship hunter as u.s experts previously thought of it it seems like china's current air
and naval abilities might not be enough to support the h6n in a long-range strike role a 2019 study
by the center for land warfare studies notes that the range restrictions of chinese present fighters
mean that h6n bombers are vulnerable to u.s japanese and taiwanese air defenses before
they can get inside the striking range of guam it additionally reveals that china does not yet
have naval or carrier battle group support for long-range bombers in air defense at the vast sea
however with the ordering of the type 055 cruisers that are equipped with powerful long-range air
defense radars and long-range surface-to-air missiles this situation might have improved
china still can't seem to master stealth technology and therefore u.s bases in the first
and second island chains continue to deter china's long-range bomber flights u.s bases in south korea
japan guam and hawaii may support long-range air and missile defenses such as the patriot
aegis ashore and terminal high-altitude area defense which can threaten china's h6n bombers
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