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China baffles world with mystery bomber
China's H-8 stealth bomber may be more advanced than the American B-2A and capable of delivering a 350-kiloton nuclear warhead to the continental United States, or it could be a mock-up of the A-12 "Flying Dorito."
Those are just two of the rumors accompanying a video trumpeting some recent triumphs of Chinese aviation.
Although it's "top secret," Chinese quasi-official Web sites brag that the Xian H-8 is a stealth carbon fiber, "special nanotechnology"-coated strategic heavy bomber.
What we know for sure is that it has a range of 11,000 kilometers, … Read more
