US Doomsday plane arrives in Vilnius ahead of NATO summit

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  • 11 July, 2023
  • 07:19
US Doomsday plane arrives in Vilnius ahead of NATO summit

US Doomsday Boeing 747-E4B plane has landed in Vilnius ahead of the NATO summit, Report informs referring to the data of the Flightradar24 service.

The plane took off from Camp Springs, Maryland a day earlier (there is a military base there) and landed in Vilnius early July 11 morning, Flightradar24 notes.

The US Navy’s Boeing E-4B is a modified version of the long-haul Boeing 747 and is used as a Doomsday vehicle, the Pentagon’s mobile backup command post in the event of a nuclear war. It is ready to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week.