Source: BroBible
Summary
The US Navy’s “doomsday plane”, a Boeing E-6B Mercury, was spotted flying over California for the second time in two months. The plane is an airborne command post and communications relay center designed for use during a nuclear war. It was seen conducting approaches and mock landings at a California airport. The Navy has 16 of these planes, which are used by the President and other high-ranking officials as a nuclear command platform.
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The doomsday plane enters the chat.
The Navy’s “doomsday planes” are nuclear command platforms that can withstand large electromagnetic pulses. They’re used by the President and other officials to control bombers, missiles, and ballistic missile submarines. At least three US “doomsday planes” have made news since December, including one that mysteriously vanished from radar systems over the Atlantic Ocean.
Because what’s more reassuring than a plane that can control nuclear war from the sky?
Author: Evan Null
