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FY-4A : le 20ème lancement spatial chinois de l'année
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Le 11 Décembre 2016, la Chine a effectué son 20ème lancement spatial en 2016, en mettant le satellite FY-4A en orbite de transfert géostationnaire. Un nouveau record de lancements pour le secteur aérospatial chinois en plein essor. Explications.
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Nouveau bras de fer entre la Chine et Taïwan, La Chine a positionné un escadron d’avion de combat Chengu J-20 à moins de 500 kilomètres de l’île séparatiste.
Les médias taïwanais ont rapporté samedi qu'un J-20 avait été aperçu volant à basse altitude près du district urbain de Quzhou, dans la province du Zhejiang en Chine orientale. Le rapport indiquait qu'il était probablement en train d'atterrir sur une base aérienne de la ville. Il est possible que le J-20 soit rattaché au Wang Hai Air Group basé à Wuhu, dans la province de l'Anhui en Chine orientale, et qu'il soit déployé à Quzhou, selon les médias de Taiwan. Pendant ce temps, les autorités de défense de Taiwan ont publié des rapports de suivi sur les sorties d'avions de combat chinois en augmentation dans la région.
La Chine confirme de son côté effectuer des exercices aériens et navals dans le détroit de Taiwan depuis le 18 septembre sans en publier les détails.
Avantage significatif :
Le positionnement d’avions de type J-20 dans la région donne un certain avantage à la Chine face à Taïwan. Une implication du J-20 dans des opérations contre Taiwan se traduirait par capacité de victoire de l’Armée de l’air chinoise dans les airs. Les J-20 stationnés à Quzhou se dirigeait en direction de Taïwan il ne leur faudrait que sept à huit minutes avant que les avions de combat taïwanais entrent dans sa zone de destruction de missiles air-air, et 15 à 20 minutes avant qu'il ne puisse atteindre Taipei. Taïwan doit en parallèle à la modernisation de sa Force aérienne remplacer ses radars d’alertes qui auraient de la difficulté à repérer l’avion furtif chinois.
Les analystes militaires chinois ont déclaré que la récente observation du J-20 est un puissant avertissement aux séparatistes de Taiwan et aux États-Unis dans le contexte de la situation actuelle dans le détroit. Tirant parti de ses capacités furtives de pénétration de la défense, le J-20 peut facilement lancer des frappes sur Taiwan avec des armes air-sol, ou peut intercepter toute tentative d'intervention étrangère air-air et air-sol.
Le Chengdu J-20 :
Doté d’une aile de type delta et des plans canards à l'avant, le J-20 dispose de deux empennages verticaux en diagonale mobiles d'un seul bloc. Cependant, Il n'y a pas d'empennage horizontal mobile, les plans canards, les parties mobiles de l'aile delta et les deux empennages diagonaux suffisent à un contrôle optimum. L’avion est doté de la poussée vectorielle, permettant d'augmenter la maniabilité de celui-ci. Le J-20 comporte un fuselage mélangé avec une section transversale radar basse, des prises de moteur à réaction basses, une configuration delta canard, un système moderne fly-by-wire (FBW), une entrée supersonique sans dérivation (DSI), des ailerons arrière en forme de V. Le système FBW est équipé d'un système de contrôle d'incendie et d'un système de gestion du moteur. Le radar actif à balayage électronique (AESA) scanne les informations sur la cible et les transmet au système de contrôle de tir. Le J-20 comporte un cockpit deux écrans à cristaux liquides (LCD) et d'un affichage tête haute (HUD). L'avion peut être piloté par le système traditionnel d'accélérateur et de manche (HOTAS).
Le J-20 est armé d'un canon interne pour les missions de combat rapproché. Il comprend huit points durs et une grande baie d'armes ventrales pour intégrer des missiles air-air (AAM) PL-12C / D et PL-21 à longue portée. L'avion est également équipé de deux petites baies latérales d'armes sous les entrées d'air pour intégrer l'AAM à courte portée PL-10. Il devrait également être équipé de missiles air-surface, de missiles antiradars, de bombes à guidage laser et de bombes largables.
L'avion est propulsé par deux turboréacteurs à double flux WS-10G générant chacun 30’000 lb de poussée. Le moteur est conçu et fabriqué par Shenyang Liming Aircraft Engine Company. Il comprend une seule turbine haute pression, une double turbine basse pression, des chambres de combustion annulaires et des compresseurs.
Le WS-10G est équipé de buses à commande vectorielle poussée (TVC) pour réduire les émissions de section transversale radar (RCS) et infrarouge (IR). Le diamètre du moteur est de 0,95 m. Le poids à sec est de 1’494 kg.
Le J-20 peut grimper à la vitesse de 304m/s. La vitesse maximale semble être de 2’100 km/h. La portée et le plafond de service seront respectivement de 3’400 km et 18’000 m.
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30 September 2020
PLAGF testing new 122 mm CTL181A-based self-propelled howitzer
by Samuel Cranny-Evans
Chinese state-owned media has confirmed that the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) has been carrying out field tests and evaluations of a new lightweight 122 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH) based on a modified Dongfeng Mengshi 6×6 CTL181A armoured vehicle.
Chinese state-owned media released images on 29 September showing a new 122 mm CTL181A-based SPH alongside other CTL181A armoured vehicles in Yunnan Province. The vehicles, which took part in field tests in Yunnan Province, are seen here being decontaminated. (China Weapon Test)
The PLA’s China Weapon Tests website reported on its WeChat page on 29 September that the new SPH, the designation of which was not disclosed, recently underwent rigorous testing with PLAGF troops in China’s southern Yunnan Province to assess both the performance and “battlefield effectiveness” of the weapon system under realistic combat conditions as well as varied terrain and weather.
The report, which showed images of at least two units of the new SPH – painted in army camouflage – taking part in the field trials, said the test results will be used to “further improve” not only the weapon system’s capabilities but also the way these can best be applied to a battlefield environment.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Chinoise / People's Liberation Army (PLA) Lun 12 Oct 2020 - 12:51
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Chinese Type 055 destroyer has anti-stealth and anti-satellite capabilities
China's indigenously developed 10,000 ton-class Type 055 guided missile destroyer can counter stealth aircraft and low-Earth orbit satellites, a Chinese state-owned media recently revealed, leading Chinese experts to say onOct. 11 that the capabilities will give Chinese forces a key edge over their opponents in modern warfare, Global Times reports.
The Type 055 is equipped with a dual-band radar system that has anti-stealth and anti-satellite capabilities in low-Earth orbit, China Central Television (CCTV) reported last weekend. The anti-satellite capability in particular has prompted discussions among military observers.
Some of the advanced radar systems produced by modern technologies can detect low-Earth orbit aircraft, which often circulate the Earth at an altitude of 300 to 500 kilometers. If the radar system has a high enough performance, it can not only detect, but also track the satellites, which means the radar can then guide weapons to attack the satellites.
In an introduction video for Nanchang, the first ship of its type, released by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy during the Spring Festival holidays in February 2020, the service confirmed the ship has a displacement of more than 12,000 tons. The warship was previously only vaguely referred to as China's first 10,000-ton-class destroyer, without information of its exact displacement. "This has debunked some analysts' estimations that the Type 055's displacement is only a little more than 10,000 tons, and indicates the ship type could be even more powerful than expected," a military expert who asked not to be named told the Global Times.
The 12,000-ton figure could refer to a standard or normal displacement, so full displacement could potentially reach 13,000 tons, the expert estimated, noting that the Type 052D, a previous classification of Chinese destroyer, has an approximate displacement of just 6,000 to 7,000 tons. Displacement is an important indicator of a warship's combat capability in multiple aspects including firepower and its ability to sail in high seas, as a larger displacement results in higher stability, more fuel and ammunition, analysts said.
With a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, the Type 055 is a 180-meter-long, 20-meter-wide guided missile destroyer with 112 vertical launch missile cells capable of launching a combination of surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, land-attack missiles and anti-submarine missiles, according to previous media reports.
Given the large size of the Type 055, it would be naturally able to carry a type of air-defense missile capable of reaching targets in low-Earth orbit, Wang predicted, noting that the radar system used on the Type 055 can also transmit data via data chain to land-based air-defense forces which can launch anti-satellite missiles. Low-Earth orbit satellites can monitor vast regions of battlefields and provide rich intelligence to their operators. In wartime, if one side can suppress hostile satellites, it can neutralize a key part of a hostile intelligence source and gain an advantage for itself.
While it is also the first time that China's state-owned media has confirmed the Type 055's anti-stealth capability, it is not much of a surprise when compared with its anti-satellite capability, as China has already revealed several types of anti-stealth radar systems in many open occasions, military observers said. In a test conducted in 2007, China successfully destroyed a satellite, BBC reported at the time. Liu Jianchao, then spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, confirmed the test and stressed China was committed to the peaceful development of outer space.
Nanchang marks China's achievement of a globally advanced level in terms of surface vessel propulsion technology and that the warship's speed is of the top class. It did not reveal details of the ship's propulsion system or the ship's top speed. Analysts predict Type 055 has variants that will use full electric propulsion in the future, which could enable more optimized power distribution and realize the usage of high-energy weapons like lasers.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Chinoise / People's Liberation Army (PLA) Dim 18 Oct 2020 - 20:27
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La vidéo d’un bombardier chinois doté d’une possible arme anti-navire hypersonique circule sur les réseaux sociaux
par Laurent Lagneau · 18 octobre 2020
Dans la course aux armes hypersoniques, la Russie et le Chine semble avoir pris de l’avance. La première a ainsi récemment mis en service le système Avanguard, un planeur hypersonique [HGV pour Hypersonic Glide Vehicle] lancé par un missile balistique intercontinental RS-18/SS-19, et développe le Zirkon, destiné aux navires de surface et aux sous-marins ainsi que le Kinjal, un missile aérobalistique air-sol appelé à être mis oeuvre par des MiG-31.
Quant à la Chine, elle dispose du DF-17, dont le fonctionnement est le même que l’Avanguard russe, et travaille sur deux projets de missiles aérobalistiques air-sol, dont un aurait une capacité nucléaire. C’est, en tout cas, ce qu’avait affirmé le général Robert Ashley, alors directeur de la Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA], c’est à dire le renseignement militaire américain, lors d’une audition parlementaire, en mars 2018.
Dans le même temps, pour utiliser de tels missiles, l’Armée populaire de libération [APL] a lancé le développement du H-6N, une évolution de son bombardier stratégique H-6K, lui-même dérivé du Tupolev Tu-16 d’origine soviétique. Cette nouvelle version affiche un rayon d’action considérablement augmenté [de l’ordre de 50%] grâce à une capacité de ravitaillement en vol.
S’agissant des missiles balistiques à lancement aérien [ALBM] évoqués par la DIA, celui qui serait doté d’une charge conventionnelle serait le CH-AS-X-13 [tel est le nom que lui a donné le renseignement américain, ndlr]. Il s’agirait d’une variante du missile balistique à moyenne portée DF-21, destinée à la lutte anti-navire. Ce qui serait de nature à donner à l’APL une capacité de frappe contre les groupes aéronavals américains.
Jusqu’à présent, l’existence d’une telle arme anti-navire faisait l’objet de spéculations et de rumeurs. Mais des images diffusées le 17 octobre via les réseaux sociaux tendent à démontrer que l’APL diposerait bel et bien d’une telle capacité.
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— OedoSoldier (@OedoSoldier) October 17, 2020
Ainsi, sur une vidéo diffusée via Twitter, on voit un bombardier H-6N [identifiable par sa perche de ravitaillement en vol] en train d’atterrir probablement dans la région de Neijiang. Et on peut constater qu’il transporte, sous le fuselage, un missile ayant un profil ressemblant à celui du DF-17.
La « fuite » de cette vidéo n’est sans doute pas fortuite, à l’heure où les tensions dans la région Indo-Pacifique se multiplient actuellement. En août dernier, l’APL a d’ailleurs procédé au tir de missiles DF-21D et DF-26B, qu’elle présente comme étant des « tueurs » de porte-avions. « C’est la réponse de la Chine aux risques potentiels posés par l’envoi de plus en plus fréquent d’avions et de navires militaires américains en la mer de Chine méridionale », avait commenté un source militaire dans les colonnes du South China Morning Post.
En septembre, la Chine a adressé une menace à peine voilée aux États-Unis en diffusant une vidéo montrant la simulation d’une attaque, par des bombardiers H-6K, d’une base ressemblant à s’y méprendre à celle de Guam. « Nous sommes les défenseurs de la sécurité aérienne de la patrie. Nous avons la mission et la capacité de toujours défendre la sécurité du ciel de la patrie », avait ainsi prévenu l’APL.
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La Chine met au point un nouveau drone kamikaze à faible coût, qui pourrait atteindre une cible située à 300 kilomètres https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2020-10-18/larmee-chinoise-teste-des-essaims-de-drones-kamikazes-1008960
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La Chine met au point un nouveau drone kamikaze à faible coût, qui pourrait atteindre une cible située à 300 kilomètres https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2020-10-18/larmee-chinoise-teste-des-essaims-de-drones-kamikazes-1008960
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Sujet: Re: Armée Chinoise / People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ven 23 Oct 2020 - 20:33
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China orders 121 more Russian helicopters
By Dylan Malyasov Oct 22, 2020
Photo by Zhang Huanpeng
China placed a new order with JSC Russian Helicopters for additional rotorcraft, the aerospace group Rostec said in its newly released annual report.
According to the company’s annual report, earlier in 2019, JSC Russian Helicopters, a Rostec subsidiary, signed a record contract for the supply of new helicopters to China. The contract covers 121 new aircraft.
Within the contract, awarded from the Chinese government and private structures, the company will supply 68 Mi-171 helicopters (including upgraded Mi-171E), 18 Mi-171Sh helicopters (military transport), 14 Mi-171 helicopters with a VK-2500 engine, 21 Ansat helicopters.
A large part of ordered helicopters is intended for the needs of the People’s Liberation Army.
It is worth mentioning that the fist Chinese Mi-171SH hecliopters were spotted in the report of the Chinese TV channel Phoenix news on the activities of the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Chinoise / People's Liberation Army (PLA) Mar 17 Nov 2020 - 18:53
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Chinese Y-20 tanker variant apparently conducts aerial refueling for J-20 fighter jet
Aviation Defense News November 2020 aerospace air force industry Posted On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:14
The development of the aerial tanker variant of China's domestically developed Y-20 large cargo plane is apparently entering the final stages, as a recent photo captured what seems to be a Y-20 tanker variant conducting aerial refueling for a J-20 stealth fighter jet, media reports said. Liu Xuanzun reports on Global Times.
Chinaese Y 20 tanker variant apparently conducts aerial refueling for J 20 fighter jet 1Possibly an artist view of the air refueling of a J-20 fighter by a Y-20 (Picture source: Chinese media)
Combinations of the Y-20 aerial tanker with the likes of the J-20 fighter jet and H-6N strategic bomber can significantly expand the operational range of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force. The photo, which circulated on social media platforms over the past few days, although its authenticity hasn't been verified, shows a Y-20 dragging a refueling hose in the air, with a J-20 approaching from the rear in a move that looks similar to aerial refueling, Ordnance Industry Science Technology, a defense magazine based in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reported on Monday. If the photo's content is conformed, it would be the first sighting of a Y-20 tanker variant conducting aerial refueling for a J-20 fighter jet.
Judging from the photo, the Y-20 aerial tanker was using a hose-and-drogue refueling system, while the J-20 was using a fuel-receiving probe, Fu Qianshao, a Chinese military aviation expert, told the Global Times on November 17. Now that the Y-20 tanker has made it to the sky and tested its capabilities with the J-20, this type of aerial tanker variant is likely technically mature and can enter test service, Fu said.
In February, Teng Hui, commander of an Air Force aviation regiment of the PLA Western Theater Command and Y-20 pilot, said on China Central Television that "The Y-20 cargo plane has variants like the Y-20 aerial tanker and Y-20 aerial early warning aircraft. I believe that people will see our Y-20 aerial tanker debut on the battlefield in the not too distant future."
It is widely expected that the tanker variant of the Y-20 will work together with and eventually replace the PLA's very few imported Il-78 tankers and the domestically developed but less capable HU-6.
According to information published by the Chinese Air Force University’s Aviation Open Day, the maximum take-off weight of Yun-20 is 179 tons, the maximum fuel load is 77.5 tons, and the maximum load is 55 tons, China Arms reports. As Yunyou-20 was developed on the basis of Y-20, its fuselage oil load should be the same or even more. The fuel supply method is the core technology of aerial tanker modification and the key to the modification of Yunyou-20. The analysis pointed out that, based on the current news, it is speculated that the fuel supply method of Yunyou-20 will still use a hose to refuel, and the fueling pod is hoisted on the wing of Yunyou-20, and the fuel hose is extended backward to fighters to carry out aerial refueling. In addition, according to the experience of other tankers, there will also be a refueling point located in the middle of the fuselage. In this way, Yunyou-20 can refuel three military aircraft at the same time.
Upon receiving aerial refueling from the Y-20 aerial tanker, the J-20 can extend its range to more than 8,000 kilometers and combat radius to more than 3,000 kilometers, Ordnance Industry Science Technology magazine said, noting that with several refuels, the J-20 can travel more than 10,000 kilometers for intercontinental flights.
The combination of the Y-20 tanker variant and the J-20 can cover the entire first and second island chains, becoming the PLA Air Force's sharpest spear in both attack and defense, the magazine said.
Fu said that the Y-20 tanker version can refuel not only tactical warplanes like the J-20, but also strategic ones like the aerial refuel-capable variant of the H-6 bomber.
Making its first public debut at the National Day parade in Beijing on October 1, 2019, the PLA Air Force's H-6N bomber can receive aerial refueling. Media reports suggest it can carry weapons including air-launched ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles.
Chinaese Y 20 tanker variant conducts aerial refueling for J 20 fighter jetPossibly an artist view of a J-20 about to be refueled by a Y-20 (Picture source: Chinese media)
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Chine : un drone guide une frappe conduite par un hélicoptère DR
24/11/2020 16:48 | BOQUET Justine
Chine : un drone guide une frappe conduite par un hélicoptère
La Chine a annoncé avoir mené des essais visant à associer un drone et un hélicoptère pour de la désignation de cibles.
Frappe hors vue.
L'emploi de drones par la Chine est désormais chose fréquente et les aéronefs pilotés à distance prennent dans le pays une place croissante, que cela soit dans le domaine civil ou militaire. La semaine dernière, le 18 novembre, la Chine a rapporté avoir mené des essais ayant pour but de faire collaborer un hélicoptère et un drone. L'ambition pour la brigade aérienne du 71eme groupe armé de la PLA était ainsi de pouvoir faire communiquer les deux plateformes afin que le drone puisse désigner une cible qui sera ensuite engagée par l'hélicoptère.
Guider et viser.
Selon les sources chinoises, les essais se sont avérés concluants et toutes les cibles furent atteintes, et ce malgré un contexte climatique difficile. Mais l'environnement météorologique est bel et bien un des éléments venant démontrer l'intérêt d'une telle combinaison. Lorsque la visibilité se trouve réduite, il s'avère compliqué pour l'équipage de l'hélicoptère de repérer sa cible, et ce d'autant plus à longue distance. Le recours à un drone permet ainsi d'identifier l'objectif en s'affranchissant des contraintes visuelles et de mener des tirs au-delà du champ de vision (BVR – beyond visual range). La portée des missiles s'en trouve alors accrue.
Partage de données.
Techniquement parlant, un des enjeux de cette collaboration drones – hélicoptères réside dans l'échange de données entre les deux plateformes et leur communication. De même, sur le plan RH la PLA a accentué les échanges et la coopération entre les pilotes d'hélicoptères et les opérateurs de drones pour qu'ils puissent partager leurs savoir-faire, leurs contraintes opérationnelles et leurs méthodes de travail.
Afin d'aller plus loin dans le scénario de l'exercice, des systèmes de défense sol-air ont par ailleurs été mis à contribution et des tirs simulés. L'hélicoptère est parvenu à les éviter tout en conduisant des frappes sur les cibles, toujours désignées par les drones.
Nouveaux usages.
Ce type d'innovation fait désormais partie des nouveaux usages imaginés pour les drones, qui viennent ainsi compléter les capacités des aéronefs historiques, à savoir avions et hélicoptères. La Chine n'est d'ailleurs pas la seule à travailler sur ces évolutions puisque MBDA présentait déjà en mars 2019 son projet Lynkeus où un drone NX70 de Novadem servait à la désignation de cibles pour son missile MMP. Via l'association de ces deux technologies, l'ambition est de pouvoir compléter l'observation dans la profondeur et en particulier faciliter la désignation de cibles. Alors que le missile MMP dispose d'une capacité de navigation autonome, il peut être engagé sur une cible non visible du tireur mais dont les coordonnées sont connues.
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Chinese Version Of US’ B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber That Has A Strike Range To Hit Continental America
The Chinese H-20, seen as a copied version of the American B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, may have a “truly intercontinental” capability to strike as far as the American island, Hawaii, without mid-air refueling.
China’s Xian H-20 is still in the development phase and will be the first dedicated strategic bomber by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). With heavy American militarization in the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese bomber is seen as an answer to strike stealth F-35 jets that Washington has been vying to equip the neighboring countries with.
The H-20 is expected to give a tough competition to the American B-21 Raider. Northrop Grumman is currently building the first test aircraft in Palmdale, California and the Air Force looks forward to procuring at least 100 B-21 Raider bombers.
The B-21, which will be in service in the next two years, will serve as an advanced, very long-range, large, heavy-payload stealth intercontinental strategic bomber and bring in new dimensions of stealth, software, offensive possibilities, and nuclear deterrence to the US Air Force.
There isn’t much information in the public domain as the bomber is still under development. However, based on the images and the little information available, analysts believe that the bomber is somewhat “indistinguishable from a US B-2.”
According to Kris Osborn of The National Interest, given China’s “well known and well-documented habit of stealing or copying US weapons designs,” H-20 has striking similarities with B-2, including the rounded upper fuselage, blended wing body, curved upper air inlets, and essentially no vertical structures. “There appears to be a fair amount of evidence, simply available to the naked eye, to demonstrate China’s overt “copycat” maneuver,” he noted.
China’s aviation giant, Aviation Industry Corporation, revealed a model jet, believed to be the US B2 stealth bomber-like model “H20”, in a 9-second Easter egg in a video commemorating 60 years of its subsidy Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation. https://t.co/yD5k0Ecc0Opic.twitter.com/kLWJkxSaXh
According to a report by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), a British defense and security think tank, the H-20 bomber will give China a truly intercontinental power-projection capability.
Quoting experts, the Chinese state media said that the H-20 bomber would have a range of at least 12,000 kilometers and 20 tons of store carrying capacity, meaning the PLA would be capable of striking Hawaii. Reportedly, the stealth bomber’s long-range wouldn’t even require refueling during its journey to strike Hawaii, reported the UK’s Sun.
Contrary to the Chinese media reports, the annual report to Congress by the US Departement of Defense, said the H-20 stealth bomber, developed by China-state owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), would have a likely range of 8,500 kilometers and a payload of at least 10 metric tons.
The Chinese H-20, seen as a copied version of the American B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, may have a “truly intercontinental” capability to strike as far as the American island, Hawaii, without mid-air refueling.
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China’s Xian H-20 is still in the development phase and will be the first dedicated strategic bomber by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). With heavy American militarization in the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese bomber is seen as an answer to strike stealth F-35 jets that Washington has been vying to equip the neighboring countries with.
The H-20 is expected to give a tough competition to the American B-21 Raider. Northrop Grumman is currently building the first test aircraft in Palmdale, California and the Air Force looks forward to procuring at least 100 B-21 Raider bombers.
The B-21, which will be in service in the next two years, will serve as an advanced, very long-range, large, heavy-payload stealth intercontinental strategic bomber and bring in new dimensions of stealth, software, offensive possibilities, and nuclear deterrence to the US Air Force.
There isn’t much information in the public domain as the bomber is still under development. However, based on the images and the little information available, analysts believe that the bomber is somewhat “indistinguishable from a US B-2.”
According to Kris Osborn of The National Interest, given China’s “well known and well-documented habit of stealing or copying US weapons designs,” H-20 has striking similarities with B-2, including the rounded upper fuselage, blended wing body, curved upper air inlets, and essentially no vertical structures. “There appears to be a fair amount of evidence, simply available to the naked eye, to demonstrate China’s overt “copycat” maneuver,” he noted.
According to a report by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), a British defense and security think tank, the H-20 bomber will give China a truly intercontinental power-projection capability.
Quoting experts, the Chinese state media said that the H-20 bomber would have a range of at least 12,000 kilometers and 20 tons of store carrying capacity, meaning the PLA would be capable of striking Hawaii. Reportedly, the stealth bomber’s long-range wouldn’t even require refueling during its journey to strike Hawaii, reported the UK’s Sun.
Contrary to the Chinese media reports, the annual report to Congress by the US Departement of Defense, said the H-20 stealth bomber, developed by China-state owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), would have a likely range of 8,500 kilometers and a payload of at least 10 metric tons.
The RUSI report added that the H-20 would feature nuclear and conventional standoff missiles, a major break from previous PLAAF doctrine and equipment development practice. “The PLAAF (and PLAN) are currently configured as regional forces for a conflict within the first island chain with additional specific capabilities aimed at neutralizing or suppressing the US base at Guam.”
Guam is a major US military base in the Western Pacific and holds strategic importance for military response in case of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific region.
Song Zhongping, a former instructor with the PLA, told SCMP, that the H-20 bomber is designed to reach US territory as part of China’s nuclear triad, which also includes ground and sea-launched missiles. “But the flying design means it is unlikely to have aerial combat capability, therefore, stealth is more important,” he said.
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Report estimates Chinese nuclear stockpile at 350 warheads
A paper published by the Chicago, Illinois-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has estimated that China has 350 nuclear warheads, significantly more than that estimated by the U.S. Defense Department.
The report, written by Hans Kristensen, the director at the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, and Matt Korda, a research associate at FAS, arrived at the number by counting both operational warheads and newer weapons “still in development.”
These weapons include hypersonic missiles, silo-based and road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, and their submarine-launched equivalents, bringing the total number of nuclear warheads to more that the “low 200s” estimated by the Pentagon in its 2020 report on China’s military.
The think tank’s report also said an estimated 272 of the 350 warheads in the People’s Liberation Army are operational. That estimate includes 204 land-based missile warheads, 48 submarine-launched warheads and 20 aircraft-delivered gravity bombs.
The latter mission had been dormant for a while, although it has recently been reconstituted with China said to be developing an air-launched ballistic missile with a possible nuclear capability. A Chinese Xi’an H-6 bomber was recently seen carrying what is believed to be a mock-up of a hypersonic boost-glide missile, although its development status is unclear.
The estimate of 350 nuclear warheads does not include the suspected air-launched ballistic/hypersonic missile, nor does it include the multiple, independent warheads that will be fitted on the DF-5C ICBM, potentially further increasing the size of China’s nuclear stockpile even after accounting for the retirement of older systems.
Nevertheless, the report noted that the size of the Chinese nuclear stockpile is still significantly below that of the United States and Russia, which have thousands of nuclear weapons in their respective stockpiles. The authors wrote that claims by the Trump administration’s special envoy for arms control, Marshall Billingslea, that China is striving for a form of “nuclear parity” with the U.S. and Russia “appears to have little basis in reality.”
It also added that China has traditionally maintained a low alert level for its nuclear forces, with most warheads at a central storage facility and smaller numbers kept in regional equivalents.
The Pentagon concurs with this assessment, adding that launchers, missiles and warheads are kept separate, although it added that PLA Rocket Force brigades conduct “combat readiness duty” and “high alert duty” drills, which are believed to include “assigning a missile battalion to be ready to launch, and rotating to standby positions as much as monthly for unspecified periods of time.”
China refers to its nuclear posture as at a “moderate state of alert,” with the report suggesting that in peacetime this “might involve designated units to be deployed in high combat-ready condition with nuclear warheads in nearby storage sites under control of the Central Military Commission that could be released to the unit quickly if necessary.”
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PLAAF H-6J or updated H-6KG Thinking face with two ECM pods like seen on the PLAN Naval Aviation H-6J (second image for comparison) underneath the additional outer wing pylons to further enhance its self-defence capabilities.
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