In more recent years it has been more officially referred to as the ABNCP (Airborne National Command Post). [1] It provides command and control of U.S. nuclear forces in the event that ground-based command centers have been destroyed or otherwise rendered inoperable.

Boeing derived the E-6A from its commercial 707 to replace the aging EC-130Q in the performance of the Navy's TACAMO mission. TACAMO links the National Command Authority (NCA) with the United...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. − A U.S. Navy E6-B Mercury visited Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Sept. 19-21, 2016. The visit allowed members of Team Minot to tour the inside of the Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) and learn about how …

The first and most famous example of SAC Airborne Command Posts (ABNCP) was a modified C-135 aircraft and crew, call sign “Looking Glass”, so named because its mission was to mirror the capabilities of the SAC underground command post.

The ALCS is capable of launching US land based intercontinental ballistic missiles. The E-6B is capable of performing both the TACAMO and ABNCP missions. This modification enables USSTRATCOM to perform current and projected TACAMO and ABNCP operational tasking using the sixteen dual mission E-6B aircraft.

2023年10月25日 · The E-6 Mercury serves as an “Airborne Command Post” (ABNCP), initially under Operation Looking Glass, utilized by the Navy to provide instructions to the country's nuclear forces should ground-based operations or command centers be …

2021年9月22日 · Communications relay and strategic airborne command post aircraft. Provides survivable, reliable, and endurable airborne command, control, and communications between the National Command Authority...

2019年5月6日 · The E-6B is the legacy platform that relays strategic communications to and from the Navy’s ballistic-missile submarines and national command authority, a program called TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out). The E-6B also serves in the airborne command post (ABNCP) role for U.S. Strategic Command, flying with a battle staff onboard.

2023年6月26日 · The U.S. Navy this month accepted the first E-6B Mercury upgraded by Northrop Grumman Corp. in Lake Charles, delivering enhanced airborne strategic communication capabilities to the warfighter.

Codenamed Looking Glass, the E-6 is United States Strategic Command 's (USSTRATCOM) Airborne Command Post (ABNCP). It is designed to take over in case the Global Operations Center (GOC), located at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces.