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Doomsday Plane: A Floating Pentagon 'Just in Case'

Think your ride is cool? I bet it's no match for the National Airborne Operations Center, no matter how pimped out yours is. Known colloquially as the "Doomsday Plane," the Boeing 747 is outfitted enough to be considered a floating Pentagon. (In the event of a devastating attack upon the United States, the Doomsday Plane serves as a mobile Pentagon.) It's got enough food, water, fuel, etc. to stay afloat for days on end. To top it off, about a dozen of the most "relevant" war plans are always onboard. Watch your ass, Sealand.

Of course, we couldn't get a picture of this uberplane, so just pretend that this Secret Service guard is in front of it and not Air Force One. – Nicholas Deleon

Inside Bob Gates's Flying Fortress [Time]

10:11 AM on Mon Jan 15 2007
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astrograph at 10:27 AM on 01/15/07
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lol.. dont worry, im sure as gizmodo gets huge(er) the president will give you guys personal invites to THE plane.
fussball at 10:28 AM on 01/15/07
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I think this is a picture?

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/neacp.jpg
Tank at 10:30 AM on 01/15/07
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"Watch your ass, Sealand."

Hilarious!
strider_mt2k at 10:32 AM on 01/15/07
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I wonder if it has one of those really good blenders on board...
atomic16 at 10:44 AM on 01/15/07
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here is a picture of it
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/E_4b.jp...
and
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/020925-F-999...
atomic16 at 10:46 AM on 01/15/07
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oh and also here is the fact sheet
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/e-4b.htm
sorry for the double post.
BurstAneurysm at 10:50 AM on 01/15/07
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The posted picture is of Air Force One...
Here's a whole gallery of pics.
http://www.stratcom.mil/photos-NAOC.html
atomic16 at 11:09 AM on 01/15/07
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last post I promise,
here is your picture, but with the right aircraft
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5461/981030f5772h023po4...
done very badly in photoshop
nzruss at 11:36 AM on 01/15/07
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Atomic16 - Did you paste in the guy adjusting his tie?
geel at 11:46 AM on 01/15/07
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according to a National Geographic special dvd about Air Force One it as well can absorb the force of a nuclear radion and has a on board operating table and equipmend....i guess the must have a least a dozen that can be used in the event of nuclear issues ...but i dont know how they would be able to stop the electromagnetic waves from disabling the electronics
Geisrud at 11:50 AM on 01/15/07
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More pictures of the NAOC.

Surf around the site for more special purpose planes too.
HDC at 12:32 PM on 01/15/07
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My dear old sweet Dad used to love frightening the bejesus out of my sister and I when we were kids by telling us about this plane. We lived a few miles from March Air Force Base which used to be a SAC base and high on the likely target list should WoPR go nuts as it was an air refueling wing base. Dad would tell us that if we ever saw that NAOC plane in the air that we should kiss our butts goodbye. But of course it's unlikely that we'd actually see it since we'd probably already be vaporized.
junyo at 12:45 PM on 01/15/07
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I wonder if it has one of those really good blenders on board...
TWO of them, and a tactical icemaker. And Jack Bauer is the pilot.
namlu at 12:47 PM on 01/15/07
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I'd rather have Austin Power's plane.
dan at 01:35 PM on 01/15/07
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Just to be accurate, it does not carry enough fuel to stay aloft for days, but can refuel in flight.
sfokevin at 01:53 PM on 01/15/07
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What about in flight pizza delivery?...
atomic16 at 04:18 PM on 01/15/07
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Yeah, I dont know why, it was a secret service agent and also I have been wanting to try out cs3 for a while, so I just took on this small project.
wingrove at 04:26 PM on 01/15/07
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heres the real thing:

http://www.offutt.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?storyID=1230...

and here:

http://www.hizone.info/data/2003/03/07/images/tb_lg_E-4nao...
wingrove at 04:28 PM on 01/15/07
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oh and here:
stopping now :-)

http://www.piedmontcommunities.us/servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpa...
iForgot_my_iName at 06:55 PM on 01/15/07
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Guys in the secret service wear pinkish magentaish ties! SWEET! Oh, sure, it can completely nuke sealand's ass, but will it blend?
tlaloc at 12:23 AM on 01/16/07
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It makes me feel much better that, should nuclear war break out the (expletive deleted) undoubtedly at least half responsible for it, will get to watch from a safe distance while we all fry, while eating Fritos bought with your tax dollars.