{"id":109189,"date":"2024-08-17T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/il-80-russia-doomsday-plane\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:00:12","slug":"the-il-80-what-to-know-about-russias-version-of-the-us-doomsday-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=109189","title":{"rendered":"The Il-80: What To Know About Russias Version Of The US Doomsday Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world&#8217;s two superpowers with vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Both planned for the doomsday of an apocalyptic nuclear Armageddon. The Americans built the E-4B Nightwatch as the emergency airborne command and control aircraft for the President in case of a nuclear attack (the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-nightwatch-boeing-e-4b-doomsday-plane-always-flying\/\">Nightwatch are still always kept in a high state of readiness<\/a>). The Soviets did the same, building the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ilyushin\/\">Ilyushin<\/a> Il-80 &#8220;Maxdome.&#8221; As Russia considers itself a great power and the inheritor of the USSR, it continues to operate these <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/doomsday-plane\/\">&#8220;doomsday&#8221; aircraft<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia built four Il-80 &#8220;Doomsday&#8221; aircraft to be the answer to America&#8217;s famous E-4B Nightwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7810,570,567,1006,412,3434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-doomsday-plane","category-guide","category-guides","category-ilyushin","category-military","category-russian-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109190,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109189\/revisions\/109190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}