The "Doomsday" plane returned to the fore again with the escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine and the announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin today, Wednesday, of partial mobilization of the army, for the first time since World War II.

With Putin's allusions to his country's exposure to nuclear threats and his threat to his country's weapons of mass destruction against Western weapons, Western media reported monitoring the takeoff of the American and Russian "doomsday" planes, amid fears of developments that might be motivated by a nuclear war.

The name "Doomsday Plane" is given to a flying strategic command center dedicated to commanding military units and formations in the event of exposure to nuclear wars and high levels of destruction and radiation, which causes the main operating rooms and airports to stop, where it can remain in the air for two weeks, and its body can protect passengers. It carries electromagnetic waves.

Regardless of what it means to take off the “Doomsday” plane in light of the current tensions between Russia and the West against the background of the war in Ukraine, and whether this represents messages of threat or deterrence to the other party, here we present to you the most prominent specifications of the Doomsday plane, whether in the United States or Russia:

  • This aircraft is a flying fortress, as it is designed in such a way that it is immune to nuclear attack, meteors, meteors and any other air force.

  • Its engine operates 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, meaning that it does not stop working, and it can be refueled with fuel in the air, and it is ready to take off at any moment if the need arises in an emergency, and the takeoff process takes only a few minutes.

  • The flight crew and those on board can communicate with the ground in any part of the world while in flight.

  • The plane, known in the United States as the "Max Dome" and in Russia as the "Flying Kremlin", has no outside windows except for the cockpit so that it would not be affected in the event of a nuclear attack.

  • The plane consists of 3 floors, and contains highly advanced devices that make it more tolerant of electromagnetic pulses.

  • The American version of the plane carries a crew of 112 people, and has 18 beds, 6 bathrooms, a briefing room, a meeting room, work areas, and executive headquarters.

  • The bubble at the top of the plane - called the "ray dome" - contains dozens of satellite dishes and antennas that can send requests to any ship, submarine or plane anywhere in the world.

  • The aircraft uses non-digital control equipment, so that it can operate even in the event of an electromagnetic pulse that could be caused by a nuclear explosion.

  • Submarines hiding in the depths of the oceans can receive military orders from the plane in any part of the ocean.

  • The Russian model of this aircraft is the Il-96-400, while the second generation was developed on the basis of the Ilyushin Il-80.

  • The first aircraft "Ilyushin Il-80" flew for the first time in 1987, and then launched a modernization program for it in 2008, when two second-generation aircraft were produced, "Zveno 3S". The Russian plane was seen flying in the sky of Moscow at a low altitude in May Past during preparation for victory celebrations.

  • A report by "Defense News" stated that Moscow is in the process of producing two new "Doomsday" aircraft, which will be a larger version of the "IL-96" model used by Russian President Vladimir Putin, to travel similar to the US Air Force One, to replace It replaced the old IL-86 aircraft.

  • The American plane is originally a "Boeing 747" developed, called the "Airborne Emergency Command Center" and also known as "E-4B", and its first model made its first flight on June 13, 1973, and since then the plane has been constantly updated and equipped With modern equipment.

  • On March 23, the American plane flew from Washington, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel before heading to the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, according to flight tracking data.

  • Experts say that the United States has a fleet of 4 “doomsday” planes, but it does not routinely fly with the president on every flight, but one of them is prepared around the clock for the possibility of sending it to anywhere in the world.