Chinese Researchers Ran the US Air Force B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Through Their Own Simulation Software Using Nothing but Public Photographs, and Say They Found Aerodynamic Flaws in It.

Chinese Researchers Ran the US Air Force B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Through Their Own Simulation Software Using Nothing but Public Photographs, and Say They Found Aerodynamic Flaws in It.

Summary and Key Points: Chinese researchers say they have found aerodynamic and stability weaknesses in the US Air Force’s B-21 Raider, and they did it without seeing a single classified document. Scientists at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre fed publicly available imagery of the bomber into simulation software called PADJ-X and modeled how the aircraft would behave in flight. Their conclusion was that small changes to its…