Anonymous ID: ff7160 Jan. 3, 2023, 4:53 p.m. No.18069146   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9190 >>9241 >>9278

Oh dear! Call sign BUNDY16. USN Boeing E-6B Mercury 164387.

 

Operational history

Codenamed Looking Glass, it is United States Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), designed to take over in case the Global Operations Center (GOC), located at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces. The term "Looking Glass" is used because the ABNCP "mirrors" the abilities of the US Strategic Command GOC to control nuclear forces.[7]

The E-6 fleet is based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and operated by Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (VQ-3), VQ-4, and VQ-7.[8]

In 2021, one of the E-3D Sentry aircraft that had been in service with the Royal Air Force was purchased for conversion into a dedicated E-6 trainer. This was done as a means of extending the life of the operational fleet by reducing the need for it to be used for training missions.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury