Another 'ideal' plaaf bomber. Planeman, you're free to take notice, since you seem to be the leading expert here.
Again, wanted to keep it a bit ordinary, doable, perhaps with a certain 70s and 80s design vibe. It probably wouldn't be too stealthy but i've gone with something that chinese aircraft manufacturers would be able to produce within next 5-10 years. Providing adequate engines are there. Supersonic speed is good for chinese needs, as they dont need so much range as they need speedy dashes for antishipping missions. So it'd really be more of a regional bomber than anything else. Still, given its size, some 2500 km combat radius with nominal warload is a minimum design would allow, probably more. Speed wise, about 1.7 mach seems to be the sweet spot, giving good speed yet not screwing up fuel efficiency with engines that'd have to be optimized for higher speeds. Plus variable intakes are not needed for such speeds when one has DSI intakes.
Perhaps the cabin should be a tiny bit smaller, compared to the rest of the plane. Everything else should be in scale. (also havent given much thought to entrance in the cabin. Should it like in su-34?) Two crewmen, side by side seating plus perhaps a resting space behind them.
Vertical tail surfaces are canted inwards as i believe that is a better solution for a bomber type airplane, RCS wise. Smaller planes would have a problem with it due to little space between fins, which isnt such a problem with a large plane. Plus, fighter sized planes do harder turns which expose tails to ground based radars at steeper angles. With little luck, if the bomber doesnt do hard turns, no ground based radar should get a 90 deg mirror return from these tails.
I must say i'm a bit confused about engine intakes. If we use f22 as an example, it would appear that the intakes snake inwards and up (where up??? there seems to be no room) before straightening out again in front of the engine blades. I've seem one diagram where the intakes were drawn asymetrically. First one snakes inwards into the fuselage, then the other one, as there's no room for both at the same point along the length of the plane.
Theoretically, bomb bay could be wider, like in f22, perhaps sporting two additional bays, each on one side of the main bay, at least half a meter in width each. Don't know about the depth of the bays, but again, 0.5 meters, or even 0.6 meters seem very doable.
But lets put those additional bays aside for a moment. The way it is configured now, it should be able to carry 3 tomahawk sized missiles or 3 similarly sized antiship missiles, modeled after Meteor AAM or the new USAF ARM. (mbda has already said they're looking into using the general design of meteor for a variety of missiles)
Alternatively, some 6 of slightly downscaled JSOW like gliders/missiles could fit, as well as 3 or so large, long ranged AAMs.
