Airborne ICBM Command Post Prototypes In Works

Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Collins have begun developing functional prototypes of an airborne terminal for sending launch commands to the U.S. Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile fleet in the event of all-out nuclear war. If deterrence fails and the U.S. and another nuclear-armed power...

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