Australia should be paying close attention to the imminent appearance of the Xian H-20 stealth bomber built by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. The aircraft will greatly improve China’s ability to hit distant targets, such as those in Australia. Part of the solution for dealing with the H-20 is to a large degree Australian: skywave over-the-horizon radar technology.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force has shown teasing renderings of the bomber in a recruitment video, highlighted by Joseph Trevithick of The War Zone. Trevithick judges that the video is official, and I agree.
Having written in late 2018 that China would probably reveal the H-20 in the flesh in 2019 (it didn’t), and in late 2019 that the event should be ‘close’ (it wasn’t), I hesitate to be so bold again.....MORE
