page_title: Anti-flash white
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Anti-flash white / United States
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Boeing E-6A Mercury aircraft in flight.
context_page_description: Anti-flash white is a white colour commonly seen on British, Soviet, and U.S. nuclear bombers. The purpose of the colour was to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants.
context_section_description: Many Strategic Air Command nuclear bombers carried anti-flash white without insignia on the underside of the fuselage with light silver-gray or natural metal (later light camouflage) on the upper surfaces.
  The United States Navy A-5 Vigilante carried anti-flash white without insignia on the underside of the fuselage.
  The Boeing E-6 in TACAMO role was painted anti-flash white but its roundels were not subdued.
caption: An E-6 Mercury airborne, painted in anti-flash white
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