Chinese stealth bomber H-18 may soon become a reality
Foreign military enthusiasts believe that this unobtrusive bomber medium range equipped with two turbofans with high thrust, the maximum range of about 8000-9000 km combat radius 3500-3700 km, the maximum speed 2M, weapons load 12-15 m. The plane has an internal bomb bay 8 m in length and in different configurations can carry up to 72 small-caliber guided bombs, four strategic RC (3000 km) SDB-10 type, four supersonic YJ-12 anti-radar missiles or Orel-100 anti-radar missiles. The bomber will be able to strike at US military bases on Fr. Guam.
To improve stealth characteristics, the aircraft was designed according to the “flying wing” scheme. Colonel Wu Guohui, a professor at China’s National University of Defense, said the development of the "invisible bomber" is one of the priority programs in the military aviation. Currently, stealth bombers are being developed by the United States and Russia.
The article says that the development of the Chinese bomber is facing difficulties. It is possible that this is true, but, as a rule, practice shows that such "drawings" are always embodied in metal, as was the case with the J-31 fighter and strike drone "Sword", the information about which appeared two years ago, but last year they became a reality.
The United States has created three types of stealth bombers - F-117, A-12, B-2 and are developing a promising NGB (new generation bomber). F-117 is currently withdrawn from the US Air Force, the A-12 program was canceled in 1990, B-2 is in service. A stealth bomber being developed by Russia is still at the stage of blowing a model in a wind tunnel.
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