폭격기 B-21 레이더는 300대 이상 뽑아야 한다?

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미첼 연구소의 Mark.A.Gunzinger가 발표한 보고서인데, B-21이 중국과 러시아를 억지하기 위한 핵 트라이어드의 규모를 늘릴 수 있는 가장 비용효율적인 옵션이며, 최소 300대를 배치해야 한다고 주장하네요. 

The B-21 Bomber: A Cost-effective Deterrent for a Multi-polar World - Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies (mitchellaerospacepower.org)

The B-21 Bomber: A Cost-effective Deterrent for a Multi-polar World

Author: Kamilla Gunzinger

September 11, 2024

Arlington, VA | September 11, 2024 — The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce a new entry in its Policy Paper series, The B-21 Bomber: A Cost-effective Deterrent for a Multi-polar World by Mark A. Gunzinger, Director of Future Concepts and Capability Assessments.

For the past 30 years, the U.S. Air Force sized its forces for lesser regional contingencies and struggled to modernize with inadequate budgets. This compelled the service to trade warfighting capacity to maintain current readiness. Today’s Air Force is now the smallest, oldest, and least ready for a conflict with a peer adversary in its history. Over the same timeframe, China modernized its forces to offset the U.S. military’s advantages in precision strike, stealth, information networks, and other capabilities. Moreover, China and Russia’s acts of aggression make clear they are willing to use military power to achieve their regional hegemonic ambitions.

The Air Force must reset its force design and grow its warfighting capacity. B-21 stealthy bombers provide unmatched survivability, large weapons payloads, very long ranges, and other capabilities integral to this new force design. The Raider’s capabilities cannot be matched by forces operated by any other U.S. service or allied military and are the most cost-effective option to increase the size of the U.S. triad to deter two nuclear peer adversaries, China and Russia. DOD must acquire sufficient B-21s to field a force of at least 300 bombers and do so at a rate that will grow its deterrence capacity this decade when the threat of peer aggression is most acute. This will require Congress to allocate additional resources to the Air Force to ensure it can acquire B-21s at scale without sacrificing the service’s other critically needed modernization programs.

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[Minowski(김유철)]

이 시나리오면 NGAD는 깔끔하게 포기해야겠죠. 그게아니라면 어떤 전력을 정리하고 예산을 획보할 수 있을까요? 대부분 시급을 다투는거만 남은거 같은데..

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새로 개발해야 하는 ICBM, SSBN(과 SLBM)에 비해서 이미 비행시험을 하고 있는 B-21 더 만드는 것이 가장 싸게 먹혀서 그런 것일까요?