China's New Stealth Fighter-Bomber: JH-XX

[Armchair]

I think a good sign that something JH-XX is coming is that China has used JH-7s up for sale for quite some time now. This could be just be replaced with FLANKERs or eventually some kind of JH-XX.

 

[Prince Kassad]

A stealth bomber is even easier for China since it doesn't need to supercruise. It only goes subsonic so China likely already has the jet engine for it. No need for thrust vector supercruise, just vanilla engines.

For avionics, the Russians are taking avionics from Su-57 PAKFA and transferring it for use in PAKDA stealth bomber.

For flying wing design, the Chinese engineers can use B-2 stealth bomber as a baseline model and further enhance the very low observability (VLO) characteristics with supercomputing technology.

It is trivially easy, because China isn't the first, it's merely following a proven flying wing design from NG that is freely available on Google images.

China isn't reinventing the wheel like these anti-China armchair pundits are suggesting.

 

[zhxy]

China needs the Tu-95 and Tu-160 technology.

 

[Figaro]

China needs the Tu-95 and Tu-160 technology.

Why would the Chinese want those when they are already developing the stealthy subsonic flying wing strategic bomber H-20? Those platforms are hardly survivable in integrated air defense environments unless accompanied by many other escorts and saturation attacks. That is why the bomber trend has shifted towards stealth+subsonic in (B-2, B-21, H-20, PAK DA) instead of the supersonic bombers (Tu-160, B-1B).

 

[obj 705A]

China needs the Tu-95 and Tu-160 technology.

the Tu-160 is at least supersonic so there could be some use of it, but the Tu-95 is subsonic and not stealthy so it would be meaningless as a replacement for the H-6 for maritime strike.
however if the purpose is strategic nuclear deterance.. apparently in 1970 there actually was a project to develop an enlarged version of the H-6 called the H-8 which would have been about the same size as a Tu-95 but it got canceled probably due to financial restrictions back at that time when China's GDP was too small

Russia itself wanted to replace the Tu-160 with the PAK DA but they couldn't and had to restart production of Tu-160 instead due to lack of money.
nowadays it is the opposit for China when compared to 1970, meaning the only case in which they would build an H-8 to complement the H-20 in numbers is if China would face financial restrictions that would prevent them from making every single strategic bomber an H-20 forcing them to compromise on the number of H-20 to aquire cheaper long range missile trucks to reach the required number of strategic bombers, personaly I believe China has the political will & the financial capability to aquire a very large number of H-20 so they wouldn't have resort to producing a cheap missile truck. as for how many strategic bombers does China require.. well that would be a long post so one day I will post it seperately on the H-20 thread.