The movements of the "doomsday planes" had nothing to do with Trump's injury

After US President Donald Trump was infected with the Corona virus, aircraft controllers and forecasters on social media linked the movement of Mercury B-6B aircraft designated for command during the war with what happened to the president.

Some said that the US strategic leadership was working to send a message of deterrence to its opponents.

The idea has spread widely, adding to confusion and fear about the implications of Trump's diagnosis.

The truth is that despite being exceptionally interesting aircraft, Mercury B-6Bs, known as "doomsday airplanes", take off, fly and land regularly, as part of the US missile defense system, and they must be prepared at any moment. , So they are.

"I can confirm that these flights were pre-planned missions, and any timing to announce the president's injury is a coincidence," said Karen Singer, chief of information operations for the US Strategic Command.

These aircraft are Boeing 707, created to receive military orders from the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense, and then transfer these orders to American ballistic missile submarines.

It is also equipped to remotely control ICBMs, through a platform called "Missile Launch Control System."

The idea is for a "doomsday plane" to be an alternative method in the event of breakdown of ground communications systems.

It is also necessary to establish line-of-sight communication communications that require convergence.

"These planes take off all the time," said Geoffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Program for Preventing Nuclear Weapons at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California.

I certainly did not draw any conclusions from it. ”

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