USAF To Replace E-4B, E-6B With One ‘Doomsday’ Fleet

The U.S. Air Force is kick-starting a potentially multibillion-dollar program to replace the E-4B “Doomsday Plane” and the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury fleet with a single fleet, called the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC). The service’s fiscal 2018 budget request rolls the E-4B National...

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