Operation Looking Glass
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Looking Glass is the historic code name for an airborne command and control center operated by the United States. Since 2016 it has been referred to as the ABNCP. It provides command and control of U.
A Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass
Gen. Richard Ellis, CINCSAC, in battle staff compartment, 1979
Early Looking Glass battle staff
Looking Glass battle staff, 1973
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
Operation Looking Glass
…Strategic Air Command, as SAC was disbanded and Strategic Command assumed the nuclear deterrence mission. In October 1998, the United States Navy fleet of E-6Bs replaced the EC-135C in performing the "Looking Glass" mission, previously carried out for 37 years by the U.S. Air Force. Unlike the original Looking…
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