"The doomsday plane

"John Keeney" wrote in message
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On Sep 14, 8:47 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:
Seems pretty clear that it was an E4 called on alert by NORAD. What
is so surprising about that?

It's surprising that the DoD doesn't admit it. What's the harm in doing
so,
especially when it is so obviously that aircraft?

General principles, never verify *ANYTHING* having to do with that
plane.

It does strike as a bit odd though, I would have thought SOP would
keep it a outside of the blast zone of a DC nuke attack. George ride
it back to DC instead of the VC-24 perhaps?



The Boeing 747 VC-25 is basically an E-4B converted for presidential travel.
It has the same EMP protection as the E-4B however the communications are
as robust as an E-4B

"Leadfoot" wrote in message
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"John Keeney" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Sep 14, 8:47 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:
Seems pretty clear that it was an E4 called on alert by NORAD. What
is so surprising about that?

It's surprising that the DoD doesn't admit it. What's the harm in doing
so,
especially when it is so obviously that aircraft?

General principles, never verify *ANYTHING* having to do with that
plane.

It does strike as a bit odd though, I would have thought SOP would
keep it a outside of the blast zone of a DC nuke attack. George ride
it back to DC instead of the VC-24 perhaps?



The Boeing 747 VC-25 is basically an E-4B converted for presidential
travel. It has the same EMP protection as the E-4B however the
communications are as robust as an E-4B

Correction

communications are NOT as robust as an E-4B

Gatt wrote:
CNN article on "The Doomsday Plane"

Cool.

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

-c

Seems to me no BFD...New York gets attacked and and E-4 launches so there is
some backup C&C in the D.C. area.

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