New Russian Bomber revealed
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New Russian Bomber revealed
Russia finalises new strategic bomber design (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?
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It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?
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Why not? Saves you an awful lot of R&D work..................... though they never replicated the B-52................
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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.
Last edited by ORAC; 6th Apr 2021 at 16:51.
Should someone tell them that winglets are basically big radar targets?
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Nah, let them find out the hard way...
Are the wingtips folding 777X-style?
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).
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).
I guess that blended wing/body holds lots of fuel....
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
and the Russians provide ejector seats for the whole crew................
What happened to the tailgunner?
Russia finalises new strategic bomber design (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?
FB
It looks like the Russians have updated the B-2?!?!?
FB
cheers
It will be very interesting to see what the Chinese have actually come up with....
Last edited by V-Jet; 7th Apr 2021 at 10:32.
Looks like a modified B-2 picture to me.