American's four National Airborne Operations Center planes, each a militarized Boeing 747-200 called an E-4B, offers senior military leaders the most complete and sophisticated airborne communications platform in the world.
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OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — I’ve always loved 747s and just about everything about them. But the one I’m on right now, known as the Doomsday plane, has a very different — and very somber — purpose than most of Boeing’s iconic jumbo jets.
Formally known as the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), this is an E-4B, the plane that America’s military leaders would use as an airborne command and control center in the case of a nuclear war or other very serious conflict.
A rare peek inside America’s Doomsday plane (pictures)
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