america's b-21 stealth bomber versus china's h-20 stealth bomber who wit win the first b-21 stealth
bomber is in production for the u.s air force but the high-tech new bomber isn't alone photos have
emerged depicting a scale model of china's own in development stealth bomber the b-21
raider is the first new air force bomber since 1988 the year the b2a spirit was unveiled the
b-21 is designed to overcome modern air defense threats including such systems as the russian
s-400 surface-to-air missile system and chinese j-20 stealth fighter to penetrate enemy airspace
the b-21 will be capable of carrying precision guided conventional missions and nuclear weapons
northrop grumman is building the first b-21 at its facility in palmdale california
the company in 2015 won the contract to develop and build potentially more than 100 b-21s the air
force intends to field the flying wing bombers as replacements for existing b1 and b2 bombers
the b-21 will be a flying wing design a specialty of northrop grumman's since the end of world war
ii the blending of the fuselage and wing combined with the lack of horizontal and vertical
stabilizers in the rear is generally thought of as the best shape possible to avoid enemy radars
from all directions a bomber penetrating deeply into enemy territory will likely
have radar waves bouncing off it from multiple angles making all around stealth a necessity
but the h-20 might not end up looking like the b2 does rogoway added just because the photos
show a direct copy of the b2 it doesn't mean that it represents the h-20 design
by better understanding the world's only flying wing stealth bomber china can better inform their
own designs making a large aircraft like the b2 controllable over a wide performance envelope
is not a small accomplishment china is deeply invested in unmanned flying wing designs but
scaling up such a platform drastically presents a number of challenges so it makes sense that
china would want to better understand everything they can about northrop's b2 not just to apply to
the h-20s design but also for their own general aeronautical knowledge base for future projects
the h-20 if and when it enters service would be only the third stealth bomber type in the world
after the b-2 and b-21 the b-21 could make its first flight in late 2021 or early 2022. things
like large components coming together integration ground tests all the things that lead up to a
first flight have to be accomplished there's a lot of things that have to happen between now
and a couple of years but in general terms that's what we're shooting for the air force still hasn't
decided how many b-21s to buy the service hopes for each bomber to cost around 600 million dollars
we're exploring the force structure between the b-1 the b-2 and the b-52 air force vice chief of
staff gen stephen wilson said in july 2019 wilson stressed that the service needs at least 100 b-21s
while northrop builds the first b-21 and the air force weighs four structure options
the chinese air force is working on its own radar evading bomber in late october
2019 photos appeared online depicting a model of a stealth bomber undergoing testing in a wind tunnel
what's immediately most noticeable about the subject in the images is that it directly
represents america's b2 spirit stealth bomber tyler rogoway noted at the war zone
there has been some speculation that this is actually china's long-awaited
h-20 stealth bomber design thanks for watching this video don't like and subscribe this channel
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