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Is China really going to start building these supersonic bombers?

Monday, January 7, 2013 6:20
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While the Western media has been focusing a lot on China’s sexiest new military toys — stealth fighters, drones, ballistic missiles, and aircraft carriers — we may have missed a relatively unsexy secret: the Chinese navy’s supersonic bomber program.  How is a supersonic bomber unglamorous? Because these “new” bombers, for which Chinais rumored to be developing a factory, are licensed copies of the Tupelov’s 1970s-vintage Tu-22M Backfire nuclear bombers — think of them as the Soviet Union’s shorter-ranged version of the American B-1 Lancer. (The Backfire actually predates “the Bone,” as the B-1 is called by its crews.)

Although nothing official has been reported from either Moscow or Beijing, Chinese web forums have been buzzing since early 2012 about the emergence of a Tu-22M3 production line. In late December, this Chinesesite claimed that Western bloggers had revealed China’s “secret” bomber program. Apparently, the aircraft will be built by Xi’an aircraft corporation in China — with engines imported from Russia since the Chinese haven’t yet mastered the difficult art of making high performance jet engines — for use by the navy.  

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