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| CGI of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing variant of LRS-B |
With a combat radius between 2,000 and 2,500 nautical miles, the US Air Force's new stealth bomber, known as the Long-Range Strike Bomber or B-3, is capable of flying in Chinese airspace for one hour, reports China Aviation News.
The new bomber has been developed to reach targets located deep in the interior of Russia and China, according to a Forbes article by defense expert Loren Thompson. The bomber must have a single-fuel range of over 5,000 nautical miles to accomplish such a goal and needs to be able to fly around heavy threat concentrations rather than in a straight line to its intended targets.
Read the full story at Want China Times