{"id":207898,"date":"2020-05-27T06:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207898"},"modified":"2020-05-30T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:41:10","slug":"russias-first-prototype-stealth-bomber-starts-construction-to-rival-us-b-2-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207898","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s first prototype stealth bomber ‘starts construction’ to rival US B-2 fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky News \u2013 May 26, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Artist impression of Russia’s hypersonic stealth bomber. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia has reportedly started construction of a prototype of its first stealth bomber – which should be ready next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plane will be able to carry “cruise missiles, precision bombs and hypersonic weapons”, reported state-controlled news agency TASS.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will use the “flying wing” design and have technology to reduce its visibility on radar – as well as the latest communications and “jamming equipment”.<\/span><\/p>\n

TASS said the start of production – part of a programme known as Product 80 – had been confirmed by a military source.<\/span><\/p>\n

Building of the cockpit is also under way and the plane will be complete in 2021, according to another source quoted by the news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aircraft will compete with America’s B-2 stealth bomber, which entered service in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n

China is also working on a stealth bomber, the Xian H-20, with speculation it could be unveiled at an airshow in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

ussia already has a stealth fighter, the Sukhoi-57, which first flew 10 years ago but has not been built in large numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK’s stealth fighter is the 1,200mph American-made F-35B Lightning<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, which the RAF first deployed in 2018 and can “operate undetected in hostile airspace”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stealth planes can fly largely undetected because their shape – usually sharp-edged and angular – reflects radar signals away from the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

They may also use coated panels that absorb radar energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work on the prototype of the high-tech plane is said to have already commenced – as China also works on its own stealth project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207898","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=207898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207902,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207898\/revisions\/207902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}