PLANE SCARY

Doomsday Plane Seen for Second Time in Two Months

The Boeing E-6B Mercury can act as a flying Pentagon in the event of a nuclear attack.

One of the U.S. military’s doomsday planes has been spotted for the second time in two months. The Navy’s Boeing E-6B Mercury was seen flying low over Fresno, California, where it carried out mock landings for two hours, according to the New York Post. The four-engine plane, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, can stay in the air for half a day, be refueled en route, and effectively act as a flying Pentagon. The $141 million command post in the sky’s primary mission would come in the event of a nuclear attack, offering an alternative command center if those on the ground are destroyed. It is able to control submarines, bombers, and missiles, with Ret. Air Force Maj. Gen. Clay Garrison telling Fox 26, “They can control the bombers, if the bombers are on alert, they can control the missiles, because the missiles are always on alert, and obviously they can control our ballistic missile submarines.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was forced to cool fears at the start of the year after the one of the Air Force’s Boeing E-4B doomsday planes was seen at Los Angeles International Airport. The new sighting comes as anxiety at home and abroad reaches new heights amid the new war with Iran.