{"id":180034,"date":"2025-02-26T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/e-4-nightwatch-il-80-maxdome-world-2-doomsday-planes-compare\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:00:16","slug":"e-4-nightwatch-vs-il-80-maxdome-how-do-the-worlds-2-doomsday-planes-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=180034","title":{"rendered":"E-4 Nightwatch Vs Il-80 Maxdome: How Do The World&#8217;s 2 &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; Planes Compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182204\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russia\/\"  >Russia<\/a><\/span> both possess rare strategic command and control military aircraft dubbed &#8216;doomsday&#8217; planes designed to be used in case of emergency (like a nuclear strike). The US possesses four Boeing E-4 &#8220;Nightwatch&#8221; aircraft, while         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030954\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/il-80-russia-doomsday-plane\/\" >Russia has three Ilyushin Il-80 (NATO reporting name &#8220;Maxdome&#8221;) aircraft<\/a><\/span> based on the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255778\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ilyushin-il-86\/\"  >Ilyushin Il-86<\/a><\/span> airliner. These aircraft are intended to be         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029358\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-nightwatch-boeing-e-4b-doomsday-plane-always-flying\/\" >used as an airborne command center for high-ranking government officials (such as the respective presidents)<\/a><\/span> in the event of nuclear war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Russian Air Forces maintain doomsday aircraft so that their presidents can command forces even in the event of a nuclear strike.<\/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":[396,399,15547,412,3434,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-ilyushin-il-86","category-military","category-russian-air-force","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034","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=180034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180035,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034\/revisions\/180035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}