{"id":355588,"date":"2026-01-26T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-air-force-suddenly-doubling-nightwatch-doomsday-fleet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:00:18","slug":"why-the-air-force-is-suddenly-doubling-its-nightwatch-doomsday-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355588","title":{"rendered":"Why The Air Force Is Suddenly Doubling Its &#8216;Nightwatch&#8217; Doomsday Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> Air Force is preparing to expand its Nightwatch fleet as it replaced a set of four E-4B aircraft with the new E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC). Recent reports have indicated that Offutt Air Force Base construction planning slides show room for six to eight E-3Cs, a significant increase from today&#8217;s four E-4B models. The aircraft is used primarily during times of emergency, typically for high-ranking government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is making some big moves.<\/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":[396,7810,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-doomsday-plane","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\/355588","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=355588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355695,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355588\/revisions\/355695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}