B-3 관련 Northrop Grummnan 자료를 읽다가 한국 관련 내용이 나와서 공유합니다.

물론 장거리스트라이크 폭격기의 타당성을 강조하기 위한 것이기는 하겠지만,

대만 분쟁(중국이 가상적국) 시에 미국이 한국과 일본의 기지를 사용하지 못할 가능성을 언급하고 있습니다.

One way to manifest the significance of the greater distances is to examine a crisis in the Asian-Pacific theater over Taiwan. If during such a contingency, Korea and Japan denied U.S. access to their territory, Guam would be the closest operating base 1,700 miles away. Australia might provide a number of bases (up to 30), but at distances of 2,700 to 4,200 miles. The size of the tanker force to support fighter operations would be significant. For example, five KC-135Rs are required to support a fourship of F-22s operating at a 2,000 radius from Guam. If the Raptors operated from Australia, an average of 3,500 mile range, eight tankers are needed. Using a JDAM-per-tanker metric, operations from Guam would have a 1.6 JDAM-per-tanker while those from Australia would have a 1.0 JDAM-per-tanker ratio. By comparison, a B-2 requires no tankers at either of these ranges to deliver sixteen 2,000 pound JDAMS or eighty 500 pound weapons

또 하나는 북한과의 분쟁 시에 미국 대통령의 명령에 의한 대응 임무를 설명하고 있습니다. (주한미군 기지에서의 출격을 배제할 수도 있다는 것은 시사점이 있죠 ^^)

For illustrative purposes, if the President directed a continuous orbit over North Korea to deter, preempt or respond to a ballistic missile launch, the NGLRS would allow such an operation from the U.S. At a flying distance in excess of 7,000 miles from the continental U.S., a minimum of seven aircraft would be required, as shown in Figure 12. 

NRLRS == Northrop Gruman Long Range Strike bomber