Inside The Military’s $223 Million 'Doomsday Plane'

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The E-4B "Nightwatch" is nicknamed the Doomsday Plane. It's designed to survive a nuclear blast. In the event of nuclear war, the militarized Boeing 747 will become the command center for the US President, Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Inside The Military’s $223 Million 'Doomsday Plane'

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There’s probably an even more impressive deadly back up plane to this one if they’re revealing the e4b

RK-epqy

If they telling us all this I wonder what they aren't telling us.

AtlanticCanadianGamer

Airlines: Never use your cellular device in the plane
This plane: I am the cellular device

AgentLTK

This feels like something a kid would come up with in a "war" with a friend like creating a completely overpowered object you will (hopefully and most likely) never use

macrxlp

Tekashi 69: y’all know this thing turns invisible

jorgehermosillo

See you in the recommendation in 7 years😉

patrickaspern

I worked on the E4-B as a flight medic this plane is amazing.

RazorTube

We all pay taxes for these guys to play their war games while we will all die in the first blast and these guys fly high above it all.

mozambique

Who will win:
A mobile flying department of defense
or
one flappy boi 🦅

realtalk

“Potentially more secure than the pentagon”
The pentagon being hit with a plane:👁👄👁

parkerjaco

I love how they just Assume they’ll have time to get to it

cameronsavoie

I live in Iowa and I have seen all four planes driving past Offutt. Here is something they don’t tell us, my dad was in the Air Force and he learned each one of those has a nuclear ballistic mislead on it.

jack-naomikrueger

A flock of birds is going to ruin this whole mans career

Hedgeflexlfz

So the person who'll start the war would be the safest of all😞

parasG

I see from the comments below that a lot of people do not know the history of the "Nightwatch" mission. The Nightwatch mission was initiated in the early 1960s (I think 1963) along with the "Looking Glass" mission. The original aircraft was the EC-135J. The first E-4A, which just had the mission equipment from the EC-135J installed, was delivered in Dec 1974 as an E-4A and then two more E-4As were delivered. The first E-4B was delivered by Boeing and the three E-4As were converted to the E-4B configuration (a massive change).

markstiefel