New Russian Bomber revealed

[Finningley Boy]

Russia finalises new strategic bomber design (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?

FB

[Asturias56]

Why not? Saves you an awful lot of R&D work..................... though they never replicated the B-52................

[ORAC]

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stealth around those intakes or those winglets, or the flaperons for that matter. Also a lot of flat surfaces.

[sangiovese.]

SU24 love child looking at the cockpit glass

[tdracer]

Should someone tell them that winglets are basically big radar targets?

[treadigraph]

Nah, let them find out the hard way...

[kration]

Originally Posted by Finningley Boy

It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?

FB

B-2?

Nah, the Armstrong Whitworth AW-52.

With a Sukhoi cockpit at the front. and Daffy Duck at the back.

[Less Hair]

Are the wingtips folding 777X-style?

[Lima Juliet]

Well done Russia, you just developed a Vulcan with winglets...

That said the Vulcan replaced the Lancaster, and this latest Russian effort replaces the TU-95 BEAR. So it seems a fair swap (just a few years late).

[etudiant]

Originally Posted by Lima Juliet

Well done Russia, you just developed a Vulcan with winglets...

That said the Vulcan replaced the Lancaster, and this latest Russian effort replaces the TU-95 BEAR. So it seems a fair swap (just a few years late).

The Bear has legs, whereas this design does not shout 'superb aerodynamics'.
I guess that blended wing/body holds lots of fuel....

[Frostchamber]

Originally Posted by Lima Juliet

Well done Russia, you just developed a Vulcan with winglets...

That said the Vulcan replaced the Lancaster, and this latest Russian effort replaces the TU-95 BEAR. So it seems a fair swap (just a few years late).

Quite a few years late, bearing in mind that (somewhat remarkably) the first flight of the Vulcan took place less than 12 years after the first flight of the Lancaster

[fitliker]

I have seen better designs on the backs of toilet doors . Of course those doors were at the old Avro aircraft plant

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

you just developed a Vulcan with winglets.

At least the crew get decent windows.

[Asturias56]

and the Russians provide ejector seats for the whole crew................

[Less Hair]

What happened to the tailgunner?

[chopper2004]

Originally Posted by Finningley Boy

Russia finalises new strategic bomber design (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?

FB

That artists / graphics rendering has been around in aviation publications for at least 4/5 years. Picked up a copy of FlugRevue in my other neck of the woods at SZG around this time 2017.

cheers

[Manifold Pressure]

lacks the visual presence of the Tu-160(!)

[V-Jet]

Originally Posted by chopper2004

That artists / graphics rendering has been around in aviation publications for at least 4/5 years. Picked up a copy of FlugRevue in my other neck of the woods at SZG around this time 2017.

Since about 1945! Whilst the undercarriage is a clear improvement, it looks to me a bit like someone has dusted off the Horten brothers old plans, done a bit of fibreglassing and stuck an F-16 nose on.

It will be very interesting to see what the Chinese have actually come up with....

[ORAC]

Hong-20

[Less Hair]

Looks like a modified B-2 picture to me.