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That is not realistic. In most circumstances the enemy won't have any defensive assets in the right place at the right time in order to generate an intercept.

It's sort of like if you're deer hunting and spot one through binoculars a mile from you moving away. You're going to have to get really lucky to take that deer.

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You're a member of the Deer Defense Corps, though, and this time you're much better armed than the hunter. You've also had twenty years of training for your mission. It's just that the hunter is really hard to see. You don't have to care about a hunter running away from you, that's not your job.

Given that there are very few B2s, they're only going to be sent against the most valuable and well protected targets. Those are the most likely to have very alert defensive assets in exactly the right place to go after the B2s.

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