What sort of a thing could do all that?
Posted on 09/12/2014 5:51:35 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
AMERICA has a doomsday plane. Actually it has four of them. But the US government does not — repeat, DOES NOT — talk openly about its doomsday planes.
The doomsday plane is like a mirror to Air Force One — a great big flying working office for the president and his or her staff.
But while Air Force One is your everyday, garden variety kind of presidential flying office, the doomsday plane is built and equipped to keep the US government running in the event of a nuclear war or other disaster.
It’s a converted 747 called an E-4B, also referred to as the “National Airborne Operations Center” when it’s called into action, which reportedly last happened on September 11, 2001.
The doomsday plane can reportedly withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while staying airborne for days without refuelling.
In fact, the doomsday plane can remain aloft for a week with mid air-refuelling. The only reason it can’t fly longer is because the engine can only be lubricated on the ground.
The doomsday plane has a radiation-protected shell, 67 antennae and satellite dishes, plus a bunch of other hi-tech gear. The communications equipment is housed in the distinctive bubble behind the cockpit.
Yet for all its technical whizzbangery, the plane was once full of clunky 80s technology like the old school computers you see in the lairs of James Bond villains a few decades ago. Much of the old technology has reportedly been pulled out now, but the cockpit is still hardly what you’d call state of the art.
Interestingly, some see that as an advantage in a national emergency. As one officer told the Discovery Channel: “You rely on more parts, it’s more susceptible to breaking”.
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He put in a basketball goal.
No, but you can damn well bet it’s got a mini-golf course. and if it’s 80’s tech it probably has RS-232 interface leads instead of USB ports.
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Great, but does it have a putting green?
Obama has them fully stocked with Choom and nekkid boys.
(He plans to leave his beard family on the ground.)
I see it in the skies in Omaha very often. I believe during the Cold War one of the doomsday aircraft was airborne at all times.
Yeah, right.
Then he immediately talks about aerial refueling...
As to the nuclear bomb & asteroid blast..... (eye roll)
What sort of a thing could do all that?
After all, we can’t allow a doomsday gap!
This is news?
My geometry teacher in 1968 was the IO for Looking Glass out of Offut.
Old as dirt.
The eye of Sauron exiting a blue plasma wormhole?
Do you really not know what that is?
I worked on the E4B... Command and Control!
“The doomsday plane can reportedly withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while staying airborne for days without refueling.
What sort of a thing could do all that?”
I think the writer is referring to radiation. Not the blast itself. It’s my guess that all of the electronic components are rad-hardened. The reason that a mil-spec gate costs $100 vs it’s 10 cent commercial counterpart. Lacking mil spec electronics in modern autos, the prepper crowd gets around this by keeping a pre 70’s vehicle on hand.
Our so-called leaders are the most cowardly people in history. Here’s hoping that after the world is on fire and they eventually land on some remote air strip with their food rations and cases of booze, that they are hacked to death and eaten by the natives.
Silly taxpayer. Barack Hussein Obama will be there. Reggie Love will be there. You? LOL infidel sucker.
OHHHNOESSS! A secret leaked again! </sarc>
These planes, all four, have been in service since Nixon. When I was a young aspiring Marine Corps Sergeant (aka Private) they were known as NEACP...Kneecap. Boeing built a maintenance hanger at Shreveport Regional Airport to service the birds...and AF1. SHV is close to Barksdale AFB. SHV is where my Mooney once lived.....said through teared eyes....
that was probably bad story editing.
being hardened to radiation, it can withstand a blast from a nuclear bomb, but depending on the size of the bomb, the shock wave, and the atmospheric winds outwards AND backwards, it has to be a certain distance away in order not to be knocked out of the sky.
i think they did a really crap editing job on that point.
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