China to begin developing long range bomber

Posted on 13 Jul 2015 by Michael Cruickshank
The Chinese have existing bombers such as the Xian H-6 which is a license-built version of the Soviet TupPLAAF by Li Pang. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Chinese state media has announced that the country’s military is looking to build its own long range strategic bomber.

In accordance with Chinese military terminology, this new bomber craft would have a range of at least 8,000km, and would be able to lift at least 10 tons of air-to-ground weapons. State mouthpiece ‘China Daily’ confirmed reporting by Kanwa Defense Review, that this decision was made during a recent meeting of high-level Chinese military officials.…

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