The US Air Force will soon announce the contractor chosen to build a new generation of long-range bombers to replace outdated Cold War-era bombers.

Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber at Davis-Monthan maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona (photo: AFP)

One of three famous US weapons manufacturing contractors, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, will be the owner of a multi-billion dollar contract under the US Air Force's Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) development program.

Under the LRSB program, one of the three contractors will produce about 80 to 100 strategic bombers to replace the US Air Force's B-52 and B-1 bombers. Each new bomber costs about $550 million.

Military experts say that, completely different from the old generation, the new generation long-range bomber will be equipped with modern equipment to probe and collect information about targets.

According to aviation military expert Richard Aboulafia, the generations of aircraft under the LRSB program are designed with mobile wings to avoid detection from radar, along with equipment to receive electronic signals and jamming devices to avoid detection from enemy aircraft.

According to Dan Tri