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USAF and Navy May Pursue Separate Nuclear C2 Aircraft, As Navy Replaces Corroded Spar Chords on E-6B

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022

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USAF and Navy May Pursue Separate Nuclear C2 Aircraft, As Navy Replaces Corroded Spar Chords on E-6B

An E-4B is washed at Offutt AFB, Neb. in April 2020 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force and Navy may pursue separate aircraft for nuclear command and control missions for connecting ballistic missile sites and submarines to the president. In the meantime, the Navy is working with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (ALC), Boeing [BA] and Mississippi-based Vertex Company--a subsidiary of Vertex Aerospace, to replace corroded spar chords on the Navy's E-6B Mercury Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) plane. The E-6B, which had an original service life of 25,000 flight hours,…

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