According to the “Fenghuang Tower” the H-8 is reported to start trial flights from January 5th. The Chinese leadership including the Central Military Committee officers, air force logistics department officer, national defense science and industry committee, Xi’an deputy mayor, the provincial party committee assistant deputy secretary, amongst others were present for inaugurating the project.

The H-8 is a secret strategic bomber, is the first stealth plane for China. The report said that, in 1994 officially set up a development to match the American B-2A as far as possible. The weapons load is targeted around 18 tons. When necessity, the bomber may travel at 1.2 Mach to penetrate defended territory or in case it needs to escape. pThe bomber will carry a new stealth cruise missile. It also has the range to reach targets on the continental United States. Range is estimated to be up to ten thousand kilometers. It is unclear whether this is with refueling or without refueling. However, the bomber is said to be able to refuel. The aircraft uses domestically produced advanced navigation equipment. The bomber has been designed by the 603 institute, and Xian will be responsible for producing the bomber. The bomber will be the first domestically designed and manufactured strategic bomber.

According to the report, the H-8 uses a high-tech blended wing-body design, has fly-by-wire controls, and an angled fuselage. The wing has massive internal fuel tanks. The aircraft using carbon fiber and other composite materials. The weapons bay has a rotating weapons profile.

The bomber retains a terrain hugging capacity and has a terrain following and mapping radar, satellite data links and advanced digital mapping systems. The bomber also uses advanced stealth technologies including nanometer coating amongst other technologies.

The H-8 will have 4 turbo-fan engines, the core of which is based on the WS-10A. Weapons will include 12 “red birds” (??) or 3 cruise missiles distribute in two weapons bays. Each of the cruise missiles may use a nuclear warhead and can fire from a distance of 3,000 kilometers. It can also use a host of other weapons including laser guided “thunder stone” 6, satellite guidance bomb and anti-ship missile, amongst others.

The H-8 bomber was a Chinese military aircraft that was a possible successor to the Xian H-6 twin-engine jet bomber. The prototype aircraft was reported to be an enlarged version of the H-6 with underwing engines, but that the project was canceled in the early 1970s before the bomber went into production. 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. China is currently developing stealth fighters like J-XX and J-13 (which is based on the J-10). pIt is the world’s second Stealth bomber, and is more advanced than the American B-2. Because the project is top-secret, little is known about the aircraft. It is a Stealth, strategic, and heavy bomber rolled into one. It carries a crew of two. It could fly as fast as Mach 1.4, has a range of 11,000 kilometers (without refuelling), and can carry over 18 tonnes of bomb load. It can carry twelve Stealth cruise missiles (each with a range of 3,000 km) on each of the two weapons bays. It could carry an additional three nuclear missiles (350-kilotons each). The bomber will be mass-produced and will enter active service in the PLAAF by 2010. The bomber will replace the old H-6 bombers that the PLAAF have in active service.

For obvious reasons the actual bomber may look slightly different because the pictures may have been camouflaged to hide the details of true design of the Chinese plane. This is standard operating procedure for new secret weapons. A similar obfuscating tactic was adopted by the American DoD before the Stealth B-2 bomber was introduced to the public. Prototype models of the B-2 had all sorts of designs.

The following article is a direct translation from Chinese to English from the source http://www.worldjournal.com/wj-weekly-news.php?nt_seq_id=1617053 using http://babelfish.altavista.com/

The Chinese first kind of self-restraint bombing 8 hiding strategic bomber, yesterday Fenghuang Tower “Military situation Observation room Video frequency” first public.

According to the Fenghuang Tower reported that, this January 5, some key model airplane soars, it bombing 8 hiding strategic bomber. Leadership and so on the Central Military Committee officers, air force logistics department officer, national defense science and industry committee, Xi’an deputy mayor, west leadership and so on the provincial party committee assistant deputy secretary, unit person in charge and so on a navigation, two groups, flies with several hundred west participation the researcher common testimony this history time.

The bang 8 is 7 flies leopard at eight ? at the end of ages bang to fly for the secret key model strategic bomber, also is the Chinese first kind of hiding airplane. The report said that, in 1994 officially set up a development, the central committee entrusts with its target approaches American B-2A as far as possible; The bomb-carrying capacity is not lower than 18 tons; When necessity may 1.2 Mach supersonic defense penetration or escapes; Carries the new hiding cruise to lead the resilience to attack North America; Range many to ten thousand kilometers; Has the flight refuel ding capability; Uses domestically produced most advanced navigation electricity equipment and so on. The duty designs by 603, west flies the company to be responsible to produce, becomes the first kind of domestic product strategic bomber.

According to the report, the bang 8 massively applies the high-tech like wing body fusion, the fax flies controls, the curved surface fuselage, around the reason flap, the wing large-scale integration fuel tank, the big area carbon fiber compound material, the carbon carbon vehicle, in sets at the rotary system weapon gallows, the terrain match track radar, the digital map, the compound guidance system, the satellite data chain, brand-new advanced attracts a wave hiding nanometer coating and so on to be too numerous to cite individually. The bang 8 recently could fly, benefits too good fan engine which finalized to four last year, too was good also was annihilates 10A and annihilates 11B the heart. This kind of fight and the bomber aircraft altogether use the consanguineous engine the advantage already to confirm by the United States military that, can entrust with the bang 8 China airplane farthest range, amounts to 1 more than ten thousand 1,000 kilometers. 12 red birds 3 cruise missiles distribute in two six revolve on the weapon gallows, each may take along the nuclear warhead, the firing distance 3,000 kilometers, also energy band thunder stone 6 and so on weapon and so on satellite guidance bomb and anti-ship missile.

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