Discover Top Posts Tagged with #e-4b

U.S. Air Force Boeing E-4B Nightwatch Advanced Airborne Command Post - 23 April 1985

(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Haggerty)

#Air Force #USAF #Boeing #E-4B #Nightwatch #Doomsday Plane #Advanced Airborne Command Post #AACP #National Airborne Operations Center #NAOC #Jets #aircraft #airplanes

What everyone knows this as, the Doomsday Plane. What's interesting, is that there is no glass cockpit or touch screens. Just basic analog instrumentation, as t's less likely to be affected by electromagnetic pulses. This aircraft is a military-hardened variant of the 747-200B.

@Ryukyuanripper via X

#e-4b #boeing #boeing aviation #command and control #aircraft #usaf #aviation #cold war aircraft #new cold war

The E-4Bs NAOC (National Alternate Operations Center) is as ABNCP (Airborne Command Post) platform based out of Offutt AFB, Nebraska. This aircraft is also know as The Doomsday Plane,

The E-4Bs NAOC (National Alternate Operations Center) is as ABNCP (Airborne Command Post) platform based out of Offutt AFB, Nebraska. This aircraft is also know as The Doomsday Plane, where in the case of a nuclear attack, war on the United State, a terrorist attack, this plane becomes the flying Pentagon and gives the SecDef and the Joint Chiefs of Staff a way to launch nuclear weapons and communicate to anything, anywhere in the world.

#usaf #Boeing 747 #doomsday #doomsday airplane #e-4 #e-4b #naoc