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Doomsday plane. Doomsday plane[1] is an unofficial denomination of a class of aircraft which is used as an airborne command post in an event of nuclear war, disaster or other large scale conflict that threatens key military and government infrastructure. The only countries known to have designed and manufactured such aircraft are the United ...
Boeing E-4. The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post (AACP), the current "Nightwatch" aircraft, [2] is a series of strategic command and control military aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). The E-4 series are specially modified from the Boeing 747-200B for the National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP) program.
Heavily modified from the Ilyushin Il-86, the Il-80 (also referred to as the Il-86VKP) is meant to be used as an airborne command center for Russian officials, including the President, in the event of nuclear war. [2] The role of the Ilyushin Il-80 is similar to that of the Boeing E-4B. [4] The Il-80 has no external windows (save those in the ...
The U.S. Air Force has eliminated Boeing from its competition to develop a successor to the E-4B Nightwatch, Boeing confirmed on Friday, shaking up the battle to build the next version of the ...
April 26, 2024 at 5:44 PM. (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday ...
There was some speculation that the "mystery plane" seen flying over the White House on September 11, 2001, was some newer incarnation of Looking Glass. However, the plane circling the White House on 9/11 was a E-4B (callsign ADDIS77/VENUS77) acting as the tertiary NAOC (Nightwatch) aircraft which was launched from ground alert at Andrews Air ...
The Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $75.7 million defense contract modification, the Pentagon announced Monday. The award relates to an existing sole-source contract under which Boeing ...
Developed from. Boeing 747-8I. The Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) is a United States Air Force program to develop a replacement for the E-4 National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), a strategic command-and-control military aircraft used as a mobile command post for the National Command Authority in emergency situations.