{"id":1739133,"date":"2022-11-15T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739133"},"modified":"2022-11-15T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:03:44","slug":"chinas-h-20-stealth-bomber-years-away-from-becoming-threat-u-s-defense-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-h-20-stealth-bomber-years-away-from-becoming-threat-u-s-defense-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s H-20 Stealth Bomber \u201cYears\u201d Away From Becoming Threat: U.S. Defense Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinas-h-20-stealth-bomber-years-away-from-becoming-threat-u-s-defense-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senior Pentagon officials are skeptical that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/history-proves-china-will-never-help-biden-on-north-korea\/\">China<\/a>\u2018s new H-20 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/h-20-chinas-stealth-bomber-built-to-strike-america\/\">stealth bomber<\/a> \u2013 which could be <a href=\"https:\/\/warriormaven.com\/china\/h20-b21-b2\">unveiled<\/a> \u201csoon,\u201d according to a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3199354\/high-hopes-chinas-h-20-stealth-bomber-launch-pla-top-brass-vow-weapon-system-upgrades\">South China Morning Post<\/a> quoting a lone \u201cmilitary insider\u201d \u2013 will be any threat to U.S. forces in the near term. Indeed, while U.S. Defense Department officials are worried that such a bomber over the long term will be of concern, at least for now, U.S. defense officials that spoke to <em>19FortyFive<\/em> claim China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/chinas-h-20-bomber-a-mix-of-the-b-2-and-b-21-raider-stealth-bombers\/\">new stealth bomber<\/a> will not change the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-is-making-china-squirm-over-taiwan-before-their-summit\/\">strategic balance<\/a> in Asia for years to come.\n<\/p>\n<h2>H-20 Stealth Bomber: What Some Think in the Pentagon<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe tend to forget <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2011\/01\/chinas-over-hyped-stealth-jet\/\">how long<\/a> China took to test, debut, test again and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/aviation\/a28436\/chinas-stealth-fighter-is-operational\/\">produce in any sort of numbers<\/a> past pieces of key \u2018stealth\u2019 aviation hardware \u2013 like their J-20 stealth fighter,\u201d explained a Senior U.S. Defense Department official, who asked to speak on background as they were not authorized to comment on such matters. \u201cYes, China could very well show off to the public soon this H-20 stealth bomber everyone has been talking about for years. It is another thing to get it ready for any combat deployment. That is years away.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Another Senior U.S. Defense official was of a similar mind. \u201cChina has dreams of copying the United States and, to some small extent, Russia when it comes to the development and deployment of stealth technology. I believe they will have stealth bombers as they would make their air force more powerful. However, we should be cautious in hyping them as they won\u2019t change the status quo in Asia for quite a few years.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<h3>What China Is Saying<\/h3>\n<p>A recent report, as noted above, claimed that the H-20 stealth bomber, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/this-could-be-our-first-look-at-a-new-stealthy-chinese-drone\">possible response<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/stealth-bomber-faceoff-americas-b-21-raider-vs-russias-pak-da\/\">B-21 Raider stealth bomber<\/a> set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/the-b-21-raider-stealth-bomber-will-be-worth-every-penny\/\">debut next month publically<\/a>, \u201cwill be launched soon.\u201d The South China Morning Post\u2019s reporting is based on a single \u201cmilitary insider,\u201d with oddly no other identifying information cited. \u201cThe aircraft is ready to be introduced, it\u2019s just a matter of choosing the right timing,\u201d explained this mysterious insider.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert: We Have More Questions Than Answers on H-20<\/h3>\n<p>Experts <em>19FortyFive<\/em> reached out to for comment on the H-20 point to the fact that we know very little about the supposed stealth bomber, beyond a possible range of 5,200 miles as cited in Pentagon reports, and that it could be used for conventional and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2022\/11\/11\/US-stealth-bomber\/9541668207912\/\">nuclear precision strikes<\/a>. \u201cAt this point, we can make educated guesses about the H-20, but the key things we need to know are how many bombers China intends to build, how stealthy they are compared to the detection capabilities the U.S. and its allies have throughout Asia, and how advanced it is compared to the older B-2 Spirit and new B-21,\u201d explained a Japanese intelligence officer who spoke to <em>19FortyFive<\/em> on background. \u201cUntil we get some of those key details, we will keep speculating. But we will get some answers \u2013 and maybe quite soon.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39542\" class=\"size-large wp-image-39542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/H-20-1200x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"H-20\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/H-20-1200x675-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/H-20-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/H-20-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/H-20-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/H-20-600x337-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/H-20.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-39542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Rendering of China\u2019s H-20 Stealth Bomber. Image Credit: Chinese Internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>A Reaction to the B-21 Unveil?<\/h3>\n<p>Some experts point to the recent announcement that the U.S. Air Force will unveil its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber on December 2nd and that China wants to leverage the H-20 to keep up the narrative that its military can catch up and surpass America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2020\/09\/chinas-df-21d-and-df-26b-aircraft-carrier-killer-missiles-a-real-threat\/\">technologically<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/chinas-h-6k-bomber-spotted-with-new-air-launched-ballistic-missile\">sky<\/a>. \u201cI find it rather odd such a report comes out now in Chinese media that the H-20 is all of a sudden ready for its debut after years of rumors. My gut tells me China does not want to get upstaged,\u201d explained a Senior Japanese Defense Offical. \u201cI would not be shocked if we woke up one morning before December 2 and China showed us the H-20. I would not be shocked one bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Pentagon officials are skeptical that China\u2018s new H-20 stealth bomber \u2013 which could be unveiled \u201csoon,\u201d according to a report in the South China Morning Post quoting a lone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}