Looking Glass (or Operation Looking Glass) is the historic code name for an airborne command and control center operated by the United States. In more recent years it has been more officially referred to as the ABNCP (Airborne National Command Post). [1] .

2016年9月23日 · The visit allowed members of Team Minot to tour the inside of the Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) and learn about how it supports U.S. Strategic Command’s mission. In addition to the tour, the aircraft and its mission, historically codenamed Looking Glass, came to Minot AFB for another mission-related reason as well.

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.

SAC ABNCP or Looking Glass was on continuous airborne alert and would transmit CINCSAC directions to SAC forces, manage the PACCS, and track all SAC forces, nuclear weapons, and delivery systems. The ABNCP also provided Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) coverage for the Minuteman Wing located at Whiteman AFB, MO.

In Jan of 1960, President Kennedy directed that one of SAC’s new airborne command posts to be airborne at all times, and, on 3rd February 1961, the KC-135 Looking Glass Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) began continuous airborne operations, with additional back-up airplanes on 15-minute ground alert.

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2016年3月1日 · The “LOOKING GLASS” started flying 24 hour operations on February 3 1961. The mission was to maintain airborne alert status and take over SAC forces if something was to happen to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Command Center. An EC-135C (LOOKING GLASS or SAC ABNCP) maintained airborne alert status 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

2020年1月31日 · The command centre was located on a number of heavily-modified KC-130 aircraft; the ABNCPs (Airborne Command Post), armed with powerful communications systems, rotated in and out of the air constantly so that one “Looking Glass” was constantly airborne.

From the initial deployment of Looking Glass, Strategic Air Command designated this program as the ABNCP, Airborne Command Post. Beginning on March 25, 1965 ABNCP was then redesignated as PACCS, Post Attack Command and Control System.

2016年9月23日 · The visit allowed members of Team Minot to tour the inside of the Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) and learn about how it supports U.S. Strategic Command’s mission. In addition to the tour, the aircraft and its mission, historically codenamed Looking Glass, came to Minot AFB for another mission-related reason as well.