Boeing E-6 Mercury
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The Boeing E-6 Mercury is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the United Sta
Boeing E-6 Mercury
A Navy E-6B Mercury at the Mojave Air and Space Port
Detail of the E-6's wingtip
A U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury refuels from a USAF 434th Air Refueling Wing KC-135R Stratotanker, 2011
TACAMO
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TACAMO is a United States military system of survivable communications links designed to be used in nuclear warfare to maintain communications between the decision-makers and the triad of strategic nu
Boeing E-6 Mercury
…conveys instructions from the National Command Authority to fleet ballistic missile submarines (see communication with submarines), a mission known as TACAMO ("Take Charge And Move Out"). The E-6B model deployed in October 1998 has the ability to remotely control Minuteman ICBMs using the Airborne Launch…
A Boeing E-6B Mercury airborne, painted anti-flash white
A U.S. Navy TACAMO EC-130Q of VQ-4, 1984.