United States Air Force will soon publish the next generation bomber project

　　United States Air Force acquisition Executive weilian·lapulante (William LaPlante) in an interview to air force magazine revealed on "long-range strike bomber" (LRS-B) the progress of the project. He said the air force will be in a few weeks, issued a "long-range strike bomber" (LRS-B) project final bid and plans to select a contractor in about a year. Laplante said the draft request for proposal LRS-B item "has been released for some time", now United States air force with potential contractors were repeatedly revised the contents of the final RFP, "are likely to be completed soon." Early 2015 selected a contractor or contractor group. He acknowledged that competition was not limited to "paper studies", including the flight demonstration machine-"we will have a number of technical products ... ... If you want to call them the ' prototype ' ". Laplante said, although not previously disclosed, but this should not be surprising, because LRS-B is "dependent upon the relative maturity of technologies". Some part of these flight demonstration machine is the product of industry has both internal resources and others is a United States air force in the years through as many investment products. In this way, the product will be the "combination of government investment and contractor's internal investment." Huang Zhang ROAR Meizu MX4

　　Laplante said, LRS-B design will follow the "change policy" (adaptable strategy), allowing for future design changes. Such a decision is that the first version of the machine will use a relatively mature technology (this is the United States Air Force has always adhered to), but the design point and "can change policy" will allow United States Air Force batch upgrade retrofit for the future to adapt to new threats and new technologies. At present, the United States Air Force also did not make the plane for all future versions of the target image, because "we do not need to know exactly, we're going to increase the machine's sensors or weapons or abilities, we just know that we want to build in the system ' linking '" and the use of open architecture, making it easy to adapt to changing environments, for example, is bound to have nuclear strike. Laplante do not approve of nuclear hardening design must be the start point of view, said the issue "is not black and white", leaving enough room for manoeuvre so that LES-B can more easily develop nuclear strike. As to why the original version is not a nuclear strike? Laplante said: "from the schedule and national needs, perspective, nuclear strike is not the original version we need."