Doomsday Plane Missing
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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.