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Old September 14th 07, 02:53 AM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default "The doomsday plane

On Sep 13, 6:14?pm, wrote:
On Sep 13, 4:44 pm, "Gatt" wrote:

CNN article on "The Doomsday Plane"


Cool.


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...tery.plane.CNN


-c


Seems pretty clear that it was an E4 called on alert by NORAD. What
is so surprising about that?


I've always wondered how EMP-hardened these aircraft are in case of
outright nuclear exchanges and deliberate EMP air bursts. If not, they
will be falling out of the sky just like their F-15 escorts.

ZXY