Matxer's SPMBT Tips

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Except that the B-1 or B-52 can be shot down.

US usually wage wars when they have air supremacy, which helps a bit.

Not in the real world. Or maybe I should say that no B-1 has ever been lost in combat, while the last B-52 to get shot down was over Vietnam. Most AA guns and ManPADs have a max altitude of around 15,000 feet. So a B-52 at 35,000 feet isn't in danger. Some of the big SAMs can get up to 60 or 70 thousand feet, but they are all radar guided and the radar they use can be fooled. A B-2 flies above the detection range of the radar and in a lot of cases above the ceiling of the SAM. IIRC the Soviets has 2 SAMS that will get high enough to challenge a B-2. The SA-6 and the SA-10 and it's offshoots ( SA2000 and 3000 series). Max altitude of the B-2 is classified, but it should at least 80,000 feet, since it has very efficient engines and is 100% lifting body.