[ameribbean expat]

Pics at link.

[Grimmy]

When I read the title I was thinking EA6B Prowler.

The pic at the link confused me for a bit.

[Blurb2350]

Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

[novemberslady]

Thanks

[CivilWarBrewing]

Loose lips sink submarines.

[Keyga8tor]

Got 3k hours doing that mission. Great platform, had a tshirt with a mushroom cloud in the background with ..Now it’s Miller Time!

[tallyhoe]

I helped build the E-6 Navy version!

[Rebelbase]

Message: POTUS impeached by committee.

[mrsmith]

Ha! I’ve never wondered hoe the VLF signals were sent.
Quite a production.

[steve86]

Are you telling me the VLF transmissions aren’t circularly polarized?

[SuperLuminal]

Didn’t the obungholers in the defense department convert the plane’s mission to great-white tracking? /s

[Mariner]

Gee, when I flew with VQ-3 we were not “known” as the doomsday plane.

But we were.

Then we were just known as the Iron Men.

[Delta 21]

Super secret sub hunting plane leaves all its squawkers on and goes on a mission where anyone in the Twitterverse can monitor it over the internet ?

[Sequoyah101]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

I wonder how the vertical is established for the antenna by flying circles?

[GreenLanternCorps]

I decoded the message: “Drink more Ovaline”

[SERE_DOC]

Same type of bird that "pickled" it's jamming radar back in the 70's and blacked out NJ...

Great time, lots of fun... Thanks for coming by, UGH!

[ops33]

Stationed at Tinker AFB, OK.

[radionet]

The article has confused the E6B Tacamo Boeing 707 with the E4B NAOC “Nightwatch” A/C. There are four E4B A/C Boeing 747s and these are called “Doomsday” planes.

[BobL]

“If called upon, they would directly facilitate the end of the world. But the fact that they are so capable of suddenly carrying out that mission ensures that they won’t ever actually have to.”

Why the HELL is it so hard to get anyone in the media to understand the above? I had it figured out in high school, and I suspect the same for most people here. We went through a lot of debate during the Cold War about whether to have nukes or whether to freeze their levels, or whatever. The ONLY question we should have discussed was how many MORE we needed, so as to assure that the Soviets understood that a nuclear war would not end well for them.