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

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.

SU24 love child looking at the cockpit glass

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

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

B-2?

Nah, the Armstrong Whitworth AW-52.

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

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).

The Bear has legs, whereas this design does not shout 'superb aerodynamics'.
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

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

At least the crew get decent windows.

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

What happened to the tailgunner?

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

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

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....

Hong-20


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4bf528d53.jpeg

Looks like a modified B-2 picture to me.