"It was not the N-20": China reacted to reports of the image of a new strategic bomber

Screenshot from PLA video

In May of this year, the Chinese army published a video showing an unknown aircraft covered with an awning. Foreign media hastened to identify it as a new generation strategic bomber N-20.

Foreign reports about the PLA H-20 stealth bomber are incorrect [...] These images are just a figment of fantasy and have nothing to do with the H-20

- reacted to reports about the appearance of a new car in the Chinese edition of the Global Times, citing official sources.

As indicated, foreign media have long been using the H-20 theme to inflate the theory of the "Chinese threat", although one should not be surprised at the work in this direction: it is quite normal for the military to want to get into service with a new platform, including a strategic bomber.

Work on the creation of the Xian H-20 has been going on since the early 2000s. It is assumed that the new aircraft, which has a "flying wing" design, will have "stealth" characteristics due to a significant reduction in the radar signature. In the Russian Federation, a similar development is carried out within the framework of the PAK DA project. However, the Chinese program is significantly ahead of the Russian one: the prototype N-20 made its first flight, as announced, back in 2013.

Comments

[Popandos]

I don't know about the plane, but the photo is beautiful

[knn54]

We found a "plate" on which Huang-di (Yellow Ancestor), the ancestor of the Chinese, "descended" to Earth.

[Shurik70]

If it was a trophy RQ-170, they would not have shown it in the official video.
Well done Chinese, they know how to work with PR

[Alex777]

Well done Chinese, they know how to work with PR

Yes, not that word what fellows!

However, the Chinese program is significantly ahead of the Russian one: the prototype N-20 made its first flight, as announced, back in 2013.

They have been flying since 2013, and no one has seen the plane yet.
That's what I understand - a credit PR!

[APASUS]

China could well have bought the RQ-170 Sentinel from Iran and this is its copy.

[Crabong]

Is there no difference between a Sentinel and a heavy bomber? Accidentally...

[APASUS]

Quote: Krabong

Is there no difference between a Sentinel and a heavy bomber? Accidentally...

From this photo, it is generally not possible to determine the size of the object, and the general configuration does not say anything

[Crabong]

Why identify by photo? The difference in the dimensions of the B-2 (for example) and the Sentinel is not clear? And in general, there is a fundamental difference? And, in general, this is what I am ... A man writes that having Sentinel and copying it, you can get a heavy bomber. Those. most likely this person does not see the difference between them.

[APASUS]

Quote: Krabong

Why identify by photo?

Do you have any other info? I use what I have

Quote: Krabong

The difference in the dimensions of the B-2 (for example) and the Sentinel is not clear?

Dedicate the creation of Sintels, poor in value, otherwise I trust photo images more and more in the old fashioned way. Maybe I missed something?

[Crabong]

You can devote yourself to this all as well as me with the help of Yandex ...

[APASUS]

Quote: Krabong

You can devote yourself to this all as well as me with the help of Yandex ...

Thank you for a well-reasoned answer! You are wonderful conversationalist

[voyaka uh]

Copied B-2, most likely.
The Chinese first copy, then improve the copied, then their own development in this direction.
Reasonable approach to new topics.

[KCA]

While they only improve the TU-16, the N-20, apparently, exists only in wet dreams, not like a blurry photo of an airplane, even a model was not shown anywhere

[voyaka uh]

I wonder whose prototype will take off earlier: PAK-DA or H-20?

[Alex777]

I wonder whose prototype will take off earlier: PAK-DA or H-20?

B-21 can be added to this list.
What do you think - who will be the first?

[voyaka uh]

I think the Americans will be the first to show the public their prototype.
(otherwise Congress will not allocate money for production),
behind them - the Russians ("we did not lag behind"), and then - the Chinese.
And the Americans will be the first to start mass production,
followed by the Chinese, and then the Russians (if they start, in general).
We'll see ...

[Alex777]

I basically agree.
Hopefully. that with the launch of the series we will be able to surprise.
We'll see ...

[Dilettante grandfather]

Right. For the Chinese to copy new prototypes, they need to look at them. So they will show their prototype after the Americans ...

[Zaurbek]

When the B29 was copied in the USSR, there were air-cooled engines ... I wonder what the Chinese will supply?

[Wedmak]

And this is not a photo, it looks very much like a render. Look how the folds of the "fabric" lie on the floor and correlate with the dimensions of the plane. Even hard fabric cannot support such arches.

[Cats]

`` The Chinese program is significantly ahead of the Russian one: the prototype N-20 made its first flight, as announced, back in 2013. ''

Yes, there are no questions about the airframe and avionics, but what about the engine? What / whose engines does it fly on?

[Runoway]

Already sang a song about the shoulder blades or everything is ahead

[LINKor55]

Tu 160 to them in response to the phrase that we are lagging behind

[501 Legion]

but this is a stupid render and not a photo, you can correct it as much as you like.

[sgapich]

What kind of plane, what kind of plane, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has long drawn ...

[Dilettante grandfather]

Quote: Popandos

I don't know about the plane, but the photo is beautiful

Probably filmed on a new, classified smartphone of domestic production!

[Dilettante grandfather]

Quote: Cats

What / whose engines does it fly on?

A new type of powder jet engine.