Does China have a stealth bomber?

Question

Last year in jan 2007, the China military has a stealth bomber called Xian H-8. The bomber has 4 Ws-10A engines derived from Russian and US technology. It is made from carbon fiber and coated with special nanotechnology. well, the Xian H-8 has a max speed of Mach 1.2 and carries stealth missiles in its cargo bay. The bomber also can carry nuclear missiles. I'm not sure if China has stolen stealth technology from the US military, but China is currently developing stealth fighters like J-XX and J-13 (which is based on the J-10).

Answer 1

None of the capabilities that they have listed make the slightest bit of sense, stealth aircraft do not use terrain following radar, and they sure as h**l dont use cruise missiles, since they are just as easily launched from any other platform. It has never been logical to combine low level penitration and stealth because stealth requires that you have some distance between you and the radar. Radar dissipates at the cubed root of the distance, in other words you can reflect more than 10 times more energy being the same distance horizontally from a radar but at low level.

Think of it this way, flying 5 miles away from a radar would reflect as much energy as you would reflect flying 25,000 ft directly over it, and it is well known that stealth aircraft can be seen on radar at such close distances. But if you were to fly 5 miles away and at 25k feet, you would reflect the cubed root of the slant range, or in simple terms, 1/11th of what you would reflect down at low level on the same flight path.

There have always been reasons for what the US air force has equipped its aircraft with, and the techniques it employs. Low level flight was a high risk gamble that was used in the 70's because missile technology was getting too lethal at medium and high levels, and radars did not yet have the capability to separate low level targets from ground objects, so they were extremely limited.

As fixed array radars and digital processing appeared in the 70's, there was now a solution to detecting low level aircraft, and that was the end production of the purpose built low level penetrators like the f-111 and the jaguar. The first Gulf war did not turn out too well for the f-111, and it was retired afterwards.

Stealthy aircraft that actively avoid radars was the solution, and it proved to be vulnerable over Serbia, where the Serbs actively engages a f-117 with 1950s era SA-2 missiles and finished the job with radar guided shilka anti aircraft cannon.

Stealth aircraft are not super aircraft, they have to be used a certain way or else they are even more vulnerable than their faster more heavily armed counterparts.

Answer 2

If they do it's very stealthy, Ive never heard about it

Answer 3

I don't remember there being talk of the US selling the design of the B-2 to China, but whatever. The B-2 will be retiring in a few years, so we'll have a spankin new design in the next years to come, wooooo!

Answer 4

manned stealth bomb**

they seem to crash a lot.

Answer 5

You answered your own question. But it's a waste of money, what good are they?