Joe Biden unexpectedly arrived in Kiev on Monday. The visit of the American president to Ukraine was shrouded in secrecy for security reasons. Biden flew to Poland earlier and took an overnight train to the Ukrainian capital. On Tuesday, the Air Force One plane with Biden on board will land in Warsaw.
American planes fly near the Polish-Ukrainian border, including the “flying Pentagon”, also known as the “Doomsday plane”. What is this machine? The Boeing 747 E4-B Nightwatch is a flying command and control center. The United States has maintained a fleet of such aircraft since the 1970s to provide an aerial command post for the US secretary of defense and senior military personnel in the event of a nuclear war, the aircraft can stay in the air for days and is able to survive the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion.
The “doomsday plane” costs about $200 million each, while the hourly cost of flying such a machine is about $372,000. dollars. For comparison, a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter flight consumes 3,000 hours. dollars for each hour, the F-16 fighter flight costs about 27 thousand. dollars per hour, and the B2 bomber – 150 thousand. dollars, explains the website.
The existence of “doomsday planes” is no secret, but their full capabilities remain unknown.
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Source: Gazeta
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