How cheap is it to lose a B-52? During Operation Linebacker II, we lost about 15 of them to low tech SA-2 surface to air missiles.
A B-2 can go in without air superiority before hand. A B-52 can not.
How cheap is it to lose a B-52? I don’t dare try to put a price on the lives of the pilots and crew, but would ask that you please do the math for me - isn’t one B-2 more expensive to build than all the B-52s that were ever built?