The old rules said you had to choose: stealth or speed. The US picked stealth. Russia went fast. China is trying to throw away the rule book.
Chinese researchers unveiled a development in aircraft design last month that could propel the nation’s next-generation stealth bombers into supersonic flight, ending the trade-off between speed and stealth that has troubled the American and Russian air forces for decades.
Since the 1930s, scientists have been studying a type of aircraft called the flying...
Can this new tech help China’s stealth bomber break the sound barrier?
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Source: scmp.com

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