Strategic forces subcommittee frets over aging ‘Doomsday’ nuclear command planes
Channel: Military Today
Date: 2022-06-09

House lawmakers are worried that Air Force’s efforts to both sustain its aging fleet of E-4B “Doomsday” planes and to replace it are falling behind, leaving potential gaps in capability for nuclear command, control and communications (NC3), according to a new subcommittee markup of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

The service currently maintains four National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) aircraft originally built some four decades ago by Boeing. Based on the firm’s 747 jets, the E-4B Nightwatch aircraft were designed to provide an airborne command center for use by US leaders in case of a nuclear attack, although it also is often used to ferry the secretary of defense on trips abroad.

The Air Force’s fiscal 2023 budget request asked for $25.7 million to undertake a handful of upgrades to various subsystems to keep at least one of the radiation-hardened aircraft in the air at all times.


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