[mastazi]

Can someone explain how those planes work, without a rudder or a vertical stabilizer?

The Chinese aircraft depicted in the article has large vertical surfaces on the wing tips, but other prototypes depicted in the same article have no vertical control surfaces whatsoever.

I don't understand how you achieve controlled flight without those. Am I being dense?

Edit: specifically I don't understand how do you control yaw.

[FredFS456]

The B-2 uses airbrakes at the wingtips. Actuate the right airbrake to yaw right, etc. You can also use differential throttle of two engines to achieve the same thing.

[beerandt]

A new generation would likely also include thrust vectoring like on the F-22.

[avereveard]

Eh. Maybe. You get a load of weight in exchange for one good high AOA turn, and then you're slow.

If you don't kill the bandit here and there, or if there's another, you're done.

Seems great in 1v1 merges, while abetter twr seems better in everything else.

[beerandt]

I meant more left/right thrust to control yaw without sacrificing your stealthy edges, not necessarily the full f-22 capabilities. Ie, not needing to actuate control surfaces on the wings (or minimize the need), in the context of not having a vertical stabilizer.

Iirc, the B-2 has to "hide" certain control surfaces momentarily when getting pulsed with radar.

[justsomehnguy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wing#Yaw_control