{"id":177702,"date":"2018-10-14T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177702"},"modified":"2018-10-16T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T06:16:07","slug":"china-says-its-h-20-nuclear-stealth-bomber-is-about-to-hit-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177702","title":{"rendered":"China says its H-20 nuclear stealth bomber is about to hit the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Brown — Business Insider Oct 11, 2018<\/h1>\n
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Screen shot of possible Hong-20 that China released in May. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Chinese military experts said on Tuesday that the H-20 nuclear stealth bomber will soon make its maiden flight.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The trial flight will come soon,”\u00a0Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Global Times is under the state-run People’s Daily, and has published hyperbolic articles before, according<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to The War Zone, but “Song does not officially speak for the Chinese government and his views are his own.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In August, China Central Television released a documentary disclosing that the H-20 is called Hong-20, meaning\u00a0“bomber aircraft” in Chinese, Global Times reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hong-20 is often compared to the US’ B-2 stealth bomber, but in May, China released a possible video teaser of it under a sheet, which looked eerily like a B-21 Raider<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhongping told the Global Times on Tuesday that disclosing the name meant that progress had been made on the Hong-20 and\u00a0that the bomber’s avionics, hydraulic pressure and electrical supply were probably completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Releasing the name might also act as a possible deterrence, Zhongping said. “Usually the development of equipment and weaponry of the People’s Liberation Army is highly confidential.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, the development and conception of the Hong-20 has been rather murky.<\/span><\/p>\n

China’s\u00a0Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation may have begun developing the Hong-20 in the early 2000s, but it was only confirmed by a PLA Air Force commander in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, the Pentagon further confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that China was “developing a strategic bomber that officials expect to have a nuclear mission,” also noting that “[past] PLA writings expressed the need to develop a ‘stealth strategic bomber,’ suggesting aspirations to field a strategic bomber with a nuclear delivery capability.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hong-20’s specifications are still relatively unknown, but\u00a0a researcher working with the US Air Force previously told Business Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that the Hong-20 is a four-engine stealth bomber and that the details have not been “revealed except it is to have a dual [nuclear and conventional] role.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hong-20 will also probably carry CJ-10K\u00a0air-launched cruise missiles,\u00a0have a range of 5,000 miles and a 10-ton payload, The War Zone reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Asia Times, citing a previous Global Times article, reported<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>that\u00a0Fu Qianshao, a Chinese aviation pundit, said the goal was for the Hong-20 to have about a 7,500-mile range and a 20-ton payload.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the latter estimates may very well be exaggerated, The War Zone reported that a range of 5,000 miles would certainly bolster Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, and pose a threat to Taiwan and even US carriers in the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With a range of 5,000 miles it could be a game changer in the Pacific and, with air -launched cruise missiles, threaten the U.S. West Coast <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177702\/revisions\/177705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}