Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:20:34 PM No.63833281
Hell yeah
https://www.twz.com/air/massive-chinese-stealth-flying-wing-emerges-at-secretive-base
https://www.twz.com/air/massive-chinese-stealth-flying-wing-emerges-at-secretive-base
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:22:07 PM No.63833296
Size
>The newly emerged aircraft itself appears impressive. It is a large flying wing that has a wingspan of roughly 52 meters, or about 170 feet. The B-2 Spirit is 172 feet wide, for comparison, and the B-21 is going to be a bit smaller. This could be a very large, high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) stealthy drone — similar to the supposed U.S. RQ-180 — but this would be the biggest we have ever seen. China is developing a number of flying-wing type designs of various sizes, including large HALE drones, but nothing at this scale, at least that we know about. It is also worth mentioning that the aircraft seen in the new imagery has a close resemblance to one that was spotted passing over the Philippines in 2021.
>The newly emerged aircraft itself appears impressive. It is a large flying wing that has a wingspan of roughly 52 meters, or about 170 feet. The B-2 Spirit is 172 feet wide, for comparison, and the B-21 is going to be a bit smaller. This could be a very large, high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) stealthy drone — similar to the supposed U.S. RQ-180 — but this would be the biggest we have ever seen. China is developing a number of flying-wing type designs of various sizes, including large HALE drones, but nothing at this scale, at least that we know about. It is also worth mentioning that the aircraft seen in the new imagery has a close resemblance to one that was spotted passing over the Philippines in 2021.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:26:37 PM No.63833330
The planform is similar to that of the B-21, with the wingtips appearing to be clipped at an angle, similar to it and the B-2. While there is a white area that appears to give the left wing a sharper tip, that is not the case as proven by the shadows below it. The sweep looks less than a B-2 or B-21, pointing to endurance at altitude as a significant design driver. There also appears to be a center barrel or domed section. This is customary on flying-wing designs. It can house the cockpit and additional internal volume for a manned aircraft or even the intake and the engines for an unmanned ones.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:28:04 PM No.63833343
This nigger is big
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:37:04 PM No.63833396
>>63833333
Can't help but acknowledge the quints of implessiveness, but China is absolutely capable of improving over time, and even if it WAS a mig25 sort of situation lighting a fire under our ass would be a good thing just like it was back then. Everyone has gotten too fucking complacent after decades of no peer threat and the retarded GWOT meme Bush and co pissed away trillions and tons of peer military capabilities on. Too much stuff is driven purely by pork rather then at least nodding vaguely at capability. Too many entrenched interests.
Only fear of a real opponent has any hope of shaking the tree on that.
Can't help but acknowledge the quints of implessiveness, but China is absolutely capable of improving over time, and even if it WAS a mig25 sort of situation lighting a fire under our ass would be a good thing just like it was back then. Everyone has gotten too fucking complacent after decades of no peer threat and the retarded GWOT meme Bush and co pissed away trillions and tons of peer military capabilities on. Too much stuff is driven purely by pork rather then at least nodding vaguely at capability. Too many entrenched interests.
Only fear of a real opponent has any hope of shaking the tree on that.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:37:34 PM No.63833401
>>63833333
Checked
Checked
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:39:19 PM No.63833413