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The aircraft is used as an air command post of the US Strategic Command and is equipped with an automated ICBM launch control system.
An American aircraft E-6BMercury arrived in Iceland, designed to communicate with strategic nuclear submarines with intercontinental ballistic missiles, the so-called “doomsday aircraft”. About it reported United States European Command.
An E-6B Mercury assigned to the 1st Airlift Wing of the United States Strategic Command recently arrived in Iceland during operations in the area of responsibility of the European Command.
The aircraft is used as an air command post of the US Strategic Command and is equipped with an automated ICBM launch control system, performs the tasks of providing a backup communication system with Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines on combat patrol.
Recall that the United States announced when Ukraine can receive F-16 aircraft.
According to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the initiative to transfer Western fighters to Ukraine already exists, so all that remains is to organize an “aircraft coalition.”
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