Doomsday Plane Missing
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"The 'Doomsday plane' fleet makes up part of Operation Looking Glass, officially known as the Airborne Command Post, which helps communicate with American nuclear forces if ground-based command centers are destroyed."
Project Looking Glass... 🤔
Could be normal training flight.
They usually don’t turn off transponders for training flights.
They’re probably fulfilling a mission of some sort. Perhaps it’s related to the recent Venezuela declaration.
It is a Command and Control Aircraft after all. And many of the assets near Venezuela are the Navies. So it makes logical sense to have a Navy Airborne command post oversee any potential operation
Though it could also be an unrelated mission. Military Leadership sometimes uses them as transports to various meetings or on extended trips. The communication equipment giving them the ability to work while airborne.
Actually they do turn off transponders for training when undetected flight is what they are practicing. I flew in P3s in the 80s and we turned those off all the time when we got to our first waypoint over the atlantic. Sometimes our target was actually far north or south of where we first turned it off. That point it was turned off meant we could fly another hour and change course undetected to our target.
They went Stealth..
They don't have to get too far off the coast in a lot of areas to be out of range of ADS-B transponder receivers. It's NOT radar...
tuned off transponder
The so called Dooms Day plane besides the E6 Mercury also includes the E4B Night Watch both Command and Control centers for the entire US arsenal in case of attack. The E6 is based on an older Boeing 707-300 airframe and the E4B is on a larger 747-200B series. Several of the E4B's have been electronically "hardened" for EMP.
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