The Army has validated its Next-Generation Command-and-Control capability and will work continuously with industry to scale ...

Mercury supplies command and control for the US Strategic Command, the Secretary of Defense and the President. The plane also provides orders to carry out nuclear strikes when necessary. Flight ...

Narrator: If there ever were a nuclear war and all US military ground communication was destroyed, this $223 million plane would become the command and control center for the US military's most ...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Conley, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, steps from the OA-1K Skyraider II as part of a delivery ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 3, 2025. The ...

During the mission, the plane experienced a fuel leak ... obtained by journalist Eric Schlosser while researching his book Command and Control, the basis of the American Experience film.

In the event of nuclear war, this E-4B could become a mobile command center. It has nuclear and thermal shields, and can even withstand EMP pulses. The plane can be refueled in the air ...

Mercury supplies command and control for the US Strategic Command, the Secretary of Defense and the President. The plane also provides orders to carry out nuclear strikes when necessary.