Inside The Military’s $223 Million 'Doomsday Plane'
The E-4B "Nightwatch" is nicknamed the Doomsday Plane. It's designed to survive a nuclear blast. In the event of nuclear war, the militarized Boeing 747 will become the command center for the US President, Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Inside The Military’s $223 Million 'Doomsday Plane'
There’s probably an even more impressive deadly back up plane to this one if they’re revealing the e4b
I've seen a much better tour of the plane shot decades ago: kzhead.info/sun/oMWTlLmseWKlnas/bejne.html Not sure what the news is with this video
Yep
luke wilson, cuz that’s relevant?
Yeah there's a new golden toilet for Trump lol
luke wilson ”lol” you are also a child
Tekashi 69: y’all know this thing turns invisible
Take my like
Lowkey the most underrated comment ever
Old joke
@@charlyel1855 yea because he posted this 3 months ago.....must be a big brain thing to u
W
Airlines: Never use your cellular device in the plane This plane: I am the cellular device
69th like here🌝
Nice. 👌
Yeah this ant Air Force One. This plane is heavily modified too I bet the cell service is sooooo strong on this plane that black thing on top is more powerful than the presidents plane cell service This is loyd Austin’s plane
Reference?
Best comment here.
This feels like something a kid would come up with in a "war" with a friend like creating a completely overpowered object you will (hopefully and most likely) never use
Little boys determining the fate of the nation and the world. We're going to have a nuclear war and the world burns down, gets blown away or flooded out?
this didnt age well with russia
@@szymon3042 what has Russia done? They’re literally getting hoed by Ukraine
@@Stxpv697 you’re so wrong
@@Stxpv697 They are doing a good job of defense, but Ukraine won’t stand long, especially with America leaving them to burn..
If they telling us all this I wonder what they aren't telling us.
Adam Frayne exactly ik trump has something up his sleeve
This is what I came here to say
MALAKHI WILK Hopefully trump isn’t able to make the flight is god forbid, something horrible (other than him being elected) did happen. He should suffer on the ground with the rest of us.
God bless Israel
Arashi Kage pls leave if you didn’t say that about Obama didn’t don’t say it for the current president
See you in the recommendation in 7 years😉
Patrick Aspern 😂😂😂
This is too meta
... why? What’s gonna happen in 7 years? What do you know that I don’t????
Patrick Aspern - I know, it was a joke. But I like to think someone is bound to push the shiny red button and a video like this would pop up in people’s YT feed.
I think I wont live for another 7 years
I worked on the E4-B as a flight medic this plane is amazing.
As the E4-B, I can confirm
Nice, I flew the SR-71 blackbird to kill Genghis khan in 2623 AD
@@BotanistOnDuna Heyyyy I was the guy that killed emperor caesar in 2622 AD!
@@TheEditsLord I remember seeing you on the news! Good times, the great alien invasion of 2634 almost made me forget.
I see from the comments below that a lot of people do not know the history of the "Nightwatch" mission. The Nightwatch mission was initiated in the early 1960s (I think 1963) along with the "Looking Glass" mission. The original aircraft was the EC-135J. The first E-4A, which just had the mission equipment from the EC-135J installed, was delivered in Dec 1974 as an E-4A and then two more E-4As were delivered. The first E-4B was delivered by Boeing and the three E-4As were converted to the E-4B configuration (a massive change).
A flock of birds is going to ruin this whole mans career
Hi I wonder how it would do against them
Future Airmen Not a scratch come on
😂😂😂
It actually helps the plain the more birds it eat the faster it will go
Hi, a Boeing 747 has 4 engines, so it would be pretty hard for it to get taken down.
“Potentially more secure than the pentagon” The pentagon being hit with a plane:👁👄👁
Too soon.
@@nagul3165 it’s been nearly 20 years
@@nagul3165 you probably did it
This was flying over NY 9/11
@@ontop2324 sorry too soon?
Marvel of human intelligence and the most important crew, this is awe-inspiring
Who will win: A mobile flying department of defense or one flappy boi 🦅
Yas
Flappity flap MFers
Flappy boi
No
F35 gonna shoot the bird down, lol
*North Korea begins to take out pencil and take notes*
*North Korea realizes they have the worst plane embargo ever*
the.abhiram.r *Laughs In Swedish* *we don’t need any of this shit*
*North Korea doesn’t even have Internet or any WiFi*
Yea cause north Korea is the only country the US has to worrie about. I dont think there is a country on the planet that the US hasn't fucked with.
@@jermainetalley5699 maybe they better than we think,maybe they have better tech but just want people to think they are so isolated from everyone
I love how they just Assume they’ll have time to get to it
lmao
And if things are toast on the ground who's going to be doing the fighting?
Currently it can be detected 30 mins early and the plane folllows them around, but there is a new missile that takes too long to detect
*white house gets nuked*
They will know before it happens
No press necessary on that flight. Thank you management
and then the pilot says, please turn off all electronic devices.
😂😂😂😂🤯😂
😂😂😂
😂
"with 4 massive engines" as an aviation fan im offended
What do you mean?
Will Towel there not massive more like medium
Yes.
Now GE90 is massive 😂
"Ray dome" as an aviation fan I'm offended
Here on Jan 6th 2021
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Enjoy the show
Yo I’m here because I heard trump in this plane
@@howiephukterpuss5855 its going to be biblical
@@baldhero6850 you heard right
I see them frequently flying out of Offutt also the E6-b, which really flys the looking glass mission. Offutt just got their own E4-b flight simulator in 2022, so they can reduce training costs. The old but effective mostly analog technology will do everything it needs to do, but is heavy so, it burns alot of fuel.
how ironic the guys starting the wars would be on a safe plane and we would be the ones being toasted
The US most likely would not start a war of this scale
Connor Erving what? 90 percent do you count children fighting too cuz your numbers are kinda wrong
Connor Erving that’s an exaggeration
@@dr.dunsaf1749 A nuclear war doesn't only kill people fighting it.
@@CF_Texas I know, the point of the comment wasn't the number, but to show that most likely, an enemy wouldn't retaliate to a non-nuculear attack with nuclear weapons.
Perfect, The Politicians stay safe while im on the ground having to listen to someone go on about Settlements needing my help...
Don't worry, when it runs out of fuel they'll join all the other dead and dying. I hope they are screaming all the way down.
If that was intentional then that is one good Fallout 4 reference! 😂😂
I got that reference
Commonwealth LOL
Those minute men....
We all pay taxes for these guys to play their war games while we will all die in the first blast and these guys fly high above it all.
and youll still die if you dont pay your taxes i dont know if you get what i mean basically making the military better or youre just gonna get clapped people these days need a mind
cold truth: some people on it are worth saving more than common people
The idea is to not get nuked obviously. This is only a worst case scenario.
Their nuke, their plane, their bunker. But its our money. They create a mess and they can simply get away with it. This is what I want to imply.
That's the system for rich, insecure brats(or so called leaders) who can't live a common life and want power to control people, Welcome to the reality
Nice video ❤
So the person who'll start the war would be the safest of all😞
Paras Garg ok keep your liberal propaganda to yourself please, thanks!
Yup
@@wh6057 its a fact dumbass
The leaders of each country going to war should fight to the death for the winner of the war
No Scope your a dumb Republican lol they aint saving the people dumbass only themselves 😭😭
"It can defend against Nuclear blast" *Bird has join the chat
Thanks for the info Btw it's a joke
@God jeez alright god
They actually throw frozen turkeys into the engine to test if it can withstand birds lol.
A bird is stronger than a nuke
LOL
I live in Iowa and I have seen all four planes driving past Offutt. Here is something they don’t tell us, my dad was in the Air Force and he learned each one of those has a nuclear ballistic mislead on it.
FBI!! Open up!!
Mislead are dangerous
@@TahmL Very
@@TahmL what's that?
Your dad isn't going to be impressed if he knows or knew (if he has sadly passed on), that you've shared state secrets with the entire world for no legitimate reason whatsoever apart from to get some likes. Well done! You got 41. I'm from Britain, but why? You're clearly MISLEADING us.
Saw one of those plus 2 escort jets earlier today.
It's a comfort that when I'm on the ground dying, my tax dollars will keep a handful of clowns alive! Back to the salt mines lol
Extactly!
ain't it just peachy?
Stfu
waste of tax dollars
@jwang604 When a nuclear war has started, they are considered clowns thereafter.
"Great, Now where do we poop" "Mother of God, I knew we were forgetting something."
No pedestrian will ever get on that aircraft. Jus the government
@@trfbassman902 We know
No worries there’s five bathrooms.
@@marionford2120 oh ok 👌
A flock of birds is going to ruin this whole mans career
Very informative about the best of the best things the world has to offer.
Madd Dog, was that James it is one awesome G
“They’ve got money for wars but won’t feed the poor”- 2pac
Have you ever seen someone starve to death in the USA?
@@jansen7640 Yeah actually
@@jansen7640 And "feed the poor" doesn't mean just literally mean poor it means helping the poorer communities out, and getting them in better condition.
jansen yeah why not?
Good thing we don't let vapid musicians with an inflated self-worth direct and inform our military tactics. If we ever go to war with China i'd really like to hear drake or Kendrick's war time strategy lol.
"This plane Is kept so secret" > proceeds to explain every detail about the plane with an included floor plan
A flock of birds is going to ruin this whole mans career
HAVING BEEN RESPONSIBLE TO HELP CARTER ORDER TWO MORE NIGHT WATCHES IN JAN 1978, And then years later learn on my first day at Boeing 18 yrs later, seeing the drawing of the E4A In a drawing use learning class was VERY IRONIC... I laughed as I ID the drawing.. my instructor thinking he had a loony in class, maybe! What I can tell you is that their research here at Nat Geo or explanation of somethings is very wrong. THE TRAILING ANTENNA is "cut" for frequency transmission to our submarines and other ships due to the very low frequencies used to COMMUNICATE wt them. You are familiar with ABLS (NAME CHANGED NOW) USED IN HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER OR THE ALABAMA SUB MOVIE to recv msgs under water, etc ...THE ANTENNA LENGTH on the plane is actually a mile long not 5 miles long...5,280 feet not 26,400 ft long... The ships antennas are totally different ..no I can't elaborate. The secrets are not the plane, but what the software and equipment can do to order our forces to protect the U.S. and our allies, on the plane. . 7 older & smaller 707 planes used as command and control to control our forces from the air is our ground command back ups, is not very efficient. The 747 combined 3 to four airplane personnel to gather to make Comd structure more effective: 1 plane instead of 7! ...it wasn't till the late 70's that the Russians had almost the same BEAR FORCES group capability, but because all their radios are based on TUBES, their planes are heavier and don't fly or as long in the air, and you can only eat so much Russian borscht and it tastes terrible if transferred in a fuel tube! HA!. EMP (ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE Can take out equipment, what we would love to do to BOOM BOX CARS NEXT TO US!) The equipment can be perminately damaged. Good IDEA TO HAVE A late model 1960's car that doesn't have electronic ignitions to operate your cars Bo computers or other radios will work if not placed inside and isolated in Farraday Cages! (Look it up!) The Russians barely got their planes' equipment right in their airplanes...We are still superior over them last I know?...I was active duty in SAC UNDERGROUND Comd Post 45 yrs ago and learned 40+ years ago of "stories" Of Russian Screw-ups. Can't say tho because even today, I'm still under gag on certain "actions" then. I EVENTUALLY, wt Rank increase, was sent UPSTAIRS to SACCA:, STRATEGIC AIR COMMD COMMUNICATIONS AREA World Wide Communications Job Control, which was upstairs in the main Bldg 500. We gathered Communications equipment command outages or maintence reports for HQ, and the Comnd Post Comm Officers "down stairs", and instructing those job controls at all bases and Airports with NATL Guard commands and radio ILS systems that affected our force movements and readiness with operation changes and other fix actions & directions. GOT a kick out of my command structure Rank of Capt. while a NCO! 4weeks before I mustard out of Air Force, the E4 at Offutt, had a Comm PROBLEM happen. It was to give Carter a RIDE the next morning to show it's best foot fwd!. I USED MY radio matainence skills to help fix the problem and because their was no fix action plan written, my temp plan that night was implemented as standard plan for any future outages till months after I was gone. As the Shift Supervisor of 7, I came up wt fix action and got the plane to WASH DC. for CARTER'S ride and his signature on a new bill to order the last two Night Watch Built and the approvals to up-grade all 4 to the E4B satellite Ant. Big BUMP on the plane. A LETTER OF COMMENDATION by my Brig General and an Atta-boy from 4Star General, SAC Comdr In Chief Gen Ellis, came to me the next afterrnoon! MY 2nd Signed General Letter of Commendation. I was thrilled at the doors I got to go through ...and some also closed to let me go to others jobs in my life .. so yeah that's life. CHECK out my bio for my background in radio/TV, telephone, and other electronics, besides Boeing.
Perfect, The Politicians stay safe while im on the ground having to listen to someone go on about Settlements needing my help...
@@SACWarrior70s And that my friends, is the last we ever heard of KC 2021.
Common man
the plane: is indistructable that one bird: i am about to end this planes whole career
nah the plane can withstand it, it isn't a normal commercial airplane
@@deepasrinivas4838 what about a whole flock of birds
Its impressive in person
Yup. We all die and they fly around plotting revenge.
Doesnt matter. The whole world is gonna be nuked in the scenario this plane flies for. They'll have an extra day or so to live. I rather die and get it over with than know my impending doom is coming whenever my aircraft runs out of fuel.
David Alexandrovitch i'm pretty sure it can refuel while in air, but yeah they will still die couple of days or weeks later if the scenario is very bad
Kathleen McCormick So what are they supposed to do about the over 300 million people in the U.S? Build an anti nuke dome? Hate to say it but a government and dead civilians is better than no government and dead civilians.
Orion, I guess if you value war and winning it is better to have a government in the air than people on the ground alive.
I’m not saying that I value war over lives. The goal of having these planes is to uphold an image of stability in times of chaos. They aren’t going to be able to save all of us during a war, that’s just how it is.
If all of US Military ground communication is down, then who do the people in this plane talk to?
Arthur Lee probably militaries underground and from other nations
Satellite
The ones underwater, underground or other planes in the air too
All Permanent secure military communications goes through only a few points on the ground, however if you have a strong enough transmitter to cut through the interference that would be in the atmosphere following many large nuclear blasts you could communicate directly to each strategic point(if they are still there) if you had the right equipment, with NAOC does and so do brigade level mobile command units, the purpose of this plane is to be able to maintain communications channels if the permanent ground based communications systems were destroyed. These planes are not the only option as the navy operates ships that have the same capability, look up navy command and control vessels, and as already stated the army has land mobile versions as well
Smoke signals
RESPECT!!
this plane landed in manila international airport last year and i had the honor to see this upclose
1:19 “Im in the Air Force.” -“Nice, what do you do?” “I fly on the E4B.” -“Are you the pilot?” “No, I operate dad.”
"Dad it's time to take a shit, you ate a lot of burgers"
Tf
DAD i’m assuming stands for Department of Defense haha
hey tyler, how do YOU spell of. are you sure DAD stands for Department Of Defense
I had a former DAD Operator...he’s still getting milk
F
Oh don't worry he'll be home soon. He just needs to pick up a pack of cigarettes...😂👍
Underrated comment XD
Don’t worry just win the lottery and he’ll suddenly appear on your doorstep
I guarded it at Grissom AFB, IN in the late 80s. I PCSed to Incirlik, Turkey in late 92 and it followed me there.
Cool job
Finally, I get to use this. In my dreams
Thanks for putting this in my recommended youtube, it really makes me feel good.
Hmm weird how that happened huh
Fun fact: Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece "Mona Lisa" Are more expensive than this plane
Not a fun fact more like a boring fact
the world is a very weird place
Doomsday happens and the officials runs into this plane forgetting about the citizens that paid the tax that was used to build the plane.
Boring
this plane costs 223 million dollars and costs 150,000 per hour to fly, i think this is more expensive.
The CRM114 Discriminator is onboard. Used to issue the recall code for Wing Attack Plan R The secret code is OPE--or purity of essence
I worked st a dealership in flight path to an airbase, Offutt. I would see it repeatedly. Impressive.
"Ray Dome" Inside the dome is where they keep all the people named Ray, high tech stuff here folks
Yeah, too bad they didn't use a radome instead, like every other aircraft.
Imagine seeing it fly over you at 3:00 AM and then a huge sun comes up
$223M! ROTFLMAO. I was a flight crewmember (FE) on this plane for 13 years. To replace a B747-200B aircraft with this capability was quoted as $1.2B and that was in the late 80s and early 90s.
All very good.. but do they have a small trolley with mini cans of refreshment and booze?
Love how this showed up in recommendations right before WW3
No
Aaah yes WW3 that never happened but ... 2020 Is way worst, -Australia fires -Coronavirus worldwide -Economy crash -America is about to be in a civil
@@AeroClubSim07 you all need to lay off the pipe .
@@letsgobrandon5622 yes lmaooo
Yeah..... world war 3......
"It's so rewarding in the sense of: every day you know you're doing something or preparing for the worst." Just like my every day life! I'm usually doing something or waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
Looking glass and that other plane from the 1990 movie 'By dawn's early light'...
Saw it on FR24 yesterday
Their first flight was in 1973, they stopped making them until 1974, it might be old but it's still one of the best planes out there.
Your crotch looks old
@@Leezeo if you're angry about your life, don't spread it to other people.
Genius
Communist spy
Chi chan super old tech. They could EASILY make this plane more fuel efficient
Who needs a Doomsday plane when you have a Iron man/ War Machine suit. One man army
Lmao, sounds like an escape plane to me
Holy sh!t it's been on 24hour stand by for 50+ years 🤯 lmfao. That's rly insane if you think about it
Doomsday won't be nuclear... Hope you've got a plane to save you from starvation.
No something else
@@insanity6379 money or ant attack
@@ronnxc No something more serious
@@insanity6379 like?
@@ronnxc rapture
I can’t imagine the stress on these people constantly preparing and planning for nuclear war
Yeah really stressful.. when knows if a nuclear war breaks out the next minute.. I'm sure they can't even sleep or eat in stress 😉
The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination
A replacement for “Looking Glass”, the Cold War version that famously commanded your attention from wherever it was flying…
KZhead been recommending me a lot of stuff like this lately🧐
Thanks for sharing. One of my jobs in the Marines was guarding these briefly.
That was pretty damn good.
Nice idea
so what about us? lmaooooo
Cj Treasure it’s just a war base lol it’s a not a flying bunker
Who cares about us peasants
MemeFeme hahaa they literally just said that this is a flying bunker for the president and the heads
take the boombing blast like a champ
we'll get a presidential alert yup, that's pretty much it. hide in your basement, i guess?
4:30 the vintage look isnt to keep working! Those analog stuff will never fail, modern computers can fail!
Been on there 4 times 👍👌
What is it feels like? It must be cool...
The video mentioned three decks but only spoke about the upper and middle; what is in the lowest deck?
5:02 “... but it’s nice knowing I’ll be safe if there’s ever a doomsday disaster”
I'm POL at offutt air force base and I actually got to have a tour of one of these badboys. Easily one of the coolest experiences of my life
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of archaic equipment.
It must be awesome being the crew for one of those planes, it's like a better chance for survival if the apocalypse happens lol
You get an extra 12 hours at most, then what?
I remember seeing an E4b orbiting the Whitehouse on 9/11/01 ,KZhead has ERASED ALL FOOTAGE
The world is a beautiful place that only few people can live their best life’s
I work at a boeing facility that has 2 of these I wish I was allowed to go inside. So I decided to just look it up... close as I'm gonna get I suppose
Get it ready asap.
I’ll be recommended to this back in 2023, in December of 2019, this video has 1.3 million views!
Sixiist - yup, leaving my comment here for the future .
Yep so future kid wiil know that i existed
Sixiist - it already happened
Where can I buy one of those ?? It might come handy one day....
Toys R Us
Theres a couple distance logistics things that dont make sense. Like how does everyone get to Nebraska after shit pops off? And if it goes and swoops everyone wherever they are, that makes even less sense. Even if they had tunnels w highspeed trains they still would take hours
When your smart phone's screen don't work: NOOOO. Man with LAN line: beep boop beep.
I’m leaving a comment here so when a bomb hits people know I existed
How would the Internet be up if a nuclear war starts?
Same
@@mlodyczaja What about the data stored here on Earth?
Bro are u still alive?
I exist too count me in
this is gonna be used soon
Im surprised they haven’t arranged to get another four 747-8 airframes to replace these E4 place a spare airframe or two to park in the desert as replacement for either the VC or E4 airframes
When you gonna film in HD?
It would be funny if after doomsday this plane gets bought down by turbulence or a random bird
Osama bin laden: hold my beard
Hold my allah
everyday you know you're doing something -Army
“old men start wars , but young generations pay for it”.
We should have stayed like us baby boomers in the 60's and resisted all this war and military escalation stuff. Look what we did to Vietnam and for what? We've spent trillions on the middle east which in turn they all hate us for. Meanwhile back at the range we have a national debt so large it can never be paid back, a crumbling infrastructure and no money for social programs, but keep voting republican folks because what you hear on Fox must be true.
0:15 lol that’s my best friends dad
Rrqr alsada1105 yea my mom owns apple and my dad is the president
He's joking
critz Obama is my dad
Anyone gonna break open that cake at 4:19? Asking for a friend lol.
there is no fighting in the war room!
I love how it cost so freaking much! But everything looks so outdated! I mean you see the size of those buttons and the play phone next to the plastic monitor!😳
It's intentional
there is nothing outdated about the plane, just because there are so many gauges and switched doesnt mean its outdated, in simple words compare a needle-gauge style speedometre in your car to a glass speedometre like you see in an audi r8 or a tesla.
The older tech isn’t sensitive to an EMP. If you look on the flight deck you’ll seethe center console is old school steam gauge just in case an EMP takes out the high tech electronics.
Doomsday happens and the officials runs into this plane forgetting about the citizens that paid the tax that was used to build the plane.
"forget"
@@trfbassman902 ??
Haha really.?? Dude the great thing about America is that everyone and anyone has the power to become successful if you want a plane or a bomb shelter or anything for that matter go out and get it don't blame them for your misfortune. They just got it like that cause they put themselves in that position. THEMSELVES**
The government has this but can’t come up with a one plan to combat a virus
@@daniellacroix5463 its easier to worry about a couple of people than to worry about hundreds of millions of people
So this is how my tax dollar is spent
Yep a tiny sliver of your taxes are going to protect the people who will help the country rebuild after a disaster. Most of your taxes are going to programs that either A. Help the poor(or more often freeloaders) B. Programs like Medicare and Medicaid that make healthcare super expensive for everyone or C. Retirement programs like social security that are a Ponzi scheme, that won't pay out but would be able to help retieies if privatized.
@@tech-hilfeportal6611 Shouldnt there be bunkers for the people too?
@@joaopiza9478 well there are adorable ways to build bunker's for poor people and there are many public bunker's. Check FEMA for more info
Congrats on winning 😂
Perfect, The Politicians stay safe while im on the ground having to listen to someone go on about Settlements needing my help...
Well its good to know all are safe as I'm guessing theres millions of these for if everyone needs to leave rapidly
No there is just 1.
"hopefully" omg, understatement of the century i'm sure, maybe the millennium.
I didn't see any bathrooms on the floor layouts.
imagine a nuclear war actually happens, and you get into this plane all happy, only for it's engines to fail because some bird got sucked in.