B-2 engineer sold stealth technology to several countries!

[turin]

Well, I think, the whole deal is more about the technology itself, not about building a precise copy of the B-2. As I said, such information can be used for a very wide range of applications. Imagine how such data can be used for improving chinese jet fighter or bomber propulsion or other future projects.

As for the funding issues, well apart from the US itself I really cant imagine anyone else, who at the moment could put that much cash into new projects other than the Chinese.

 

[Pursuit Curve]

Again the technology is only good if you can replicate it, maintain it. The Chinese budget will be strained attempting to do so, and if they do, it is now older technology, so while it may be a milestone for Chinese technology, it will be old hat for US Technology.

The engines used in the B2 are not stealthy, the system used for shielding the IR signature is, The Air intake design is stealth, so the engine is again only a piece of the puzzle, also the use in a fighter has different problems as reagrds stealth, and the only aircraft that does that at successfully at the moment is the F22.

 

[PLA2025]

My German Kamerad Turin said it right,
the Chinese might want the technoogy to study it and seeking inspirations to develop own stuff rather than trying to copy a B-2 plane which would resemble the OG US B-2 for over 70% or else. China was seeking for long range strategic bombers in the 1980's and 1990's with several attempts to purchase Russian Tu-22M Backfires or the Su-34 StrikeFlanker in the late 1990's but failed to make any deals. Now...after the Peace Mission 2005 by the Chinese and Russians, Russia hinted that they would sell at least 40 Tu-22M Backfires to China. But China has not shown that big interests than 5 years ago. China has been setting priority to its long-range and cruisemissile developments to increase long distance strike capability than deploying bombers that are not that advanced anymore. The US is still the only country to have stealth bombers in service and I'm pretty sure they won't sell it to anybody (even not to the UK or Israel).
I'm just wondering what would happen if all advanced military forces would have stealth fighters/ bombers or stealth counter measures? Will there something completely new and different to increase the stealth-capability? But it's somehow sad that the most advanced planes are still flying with petrol/Kerosin. Why not jumping to other power generation sources? Is it that difficult or did the weapons industry people never thought of oil shortage oneday?

 

[Pursuit Curve]

My German Kamerad Turin said it right,
the Chinese might want the technoogy to study it and seeking inspirations to develop own stuff rather than trying to copy a B-2 plane which would resemble the OG US B-2 for over 70% or else. China was seeking for long range strategic bombers in the 1980's and 1990's with several attempts to purchase Russian Tu-22M Backfires or the Su-34 StrikeFlanker in the late 1990's but failed to make any deals. Now...after the Peace Mission 2005 by the Chinese and Russians, Russia hinted that they would sell at least 40 Tu-22M Backfires to China. But China has not shown that big interests than 5 years ago. China has been setting priority to its long-range and cruisemissile developments to increase long distance strike capability than deploying bombers that are not that advanced anymore. The US is still the only country to have stealth bombers in service and I'm pretty sure they won't sell it to anybody (even not to the UK or Israel).
I'm just wondering what would happen if all advanced military forces would have stealth fighters/ bombers or stealth counter measures? Will there something completely new and different to increase the stealth-capability? But it's somehow sad that the most advanced planes are still flying with petrol/Kerosin. Why not jumping to other power generation sources? Is it that difficult or did the weapons industry people never thought of oil shortage oneday?

Well, I would not consider the TU22M or the Strike Flanker as Intercontennental in use, as was pointed out in the Eighties and Nineties, the TU22M had only an effective range to go to the UK, at best. And the Strike Flanker, well, that is another question.

The US experimented with a flying Nuclear Reactor in a B-36 Peacemaker in the 1950's, and of course there were the Germans that had to resort to alternative fuels in the Second World War.