{"id":4322,"date":"2018-10-15T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2018-10-15T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:59:07","slug":"china-reportedly-plans-to-unveil-h-20-stealth-bomber-at-air-force-anniversary-parade-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/15\/china-reportedly-plans-to-unveil-h-20-stealth-bomber-at-air-force-anniversary-parade-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA REPORTEDLY PLANS TO UNVEIL H-20 STEALTH BOMBER AT AIR FORCE ANNIVERSARY PARADE IN 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400.jpg 790w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400-560x284.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400-260x132.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/ChinaHong-20_stealth_bomber_trial_flight_expected_very_soon_001-790x400-160x81.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Drive<\/p>\n<p>By Joseph Trevithick<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after Chinese state media said the H-20 stealth bomber program was making \u201cgreat progress,\u201d there are now reports that the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, might be planning to publicly reveal the plane during celebrations the mark the 70th anniversary of its founding in 2019. It has also emerged that the PLAAF showed off a logo featuring the silhouette of a flying wing-style aircraft at a recent official gala promoting plans to establish a \u201cfirst-class strategic bomber division,\u201d which may also be a nod to the up-coming H-20.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Blog was among the first to spot the stories regarding the H-20\u2019s possible participation in a PLAAF anniversary parade that appeared on Oct. 15, 2018. It\u2019s not clear when that event might actually occur, but the official founding date for the service is November 11.<\/p>\n<p>A China Central Television broadcast in August 2018 had been the first to officially use the bomber\u2019s nomenclature and the presenter reaffirmed that the plane was a \u201cnew long-distance strategic bomber,\u201d which many took as an indication that the design was increasingly mature.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/24226\/china-reportedly-plans-to-unveil-h-20-stealth-bomber-at-air-force-anniversary-parade-in-2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Drive By Joseph Trevithick Less than a week after Chinese state media said the H-20 stealth bomber program was making \u201cgreat progress,\u201d there are now reports that the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, might be planning to publicly reveal the plane during celebrations the mark the 70th anniversary of its founding&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/15\/china-reportedly-plans-to-unveil-h-20-stealth-bomber-at-air-force-anniversary-parade-in-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA REPORTEDLY PLANS TO UNVEIL H-20 STEALTH BOMBER AT AIR FORCE ANNIVERSARY PARADE IN 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}