The Navy’s Airborne Nuclear Command and Control Platform, Boeing E-6 Mercury, is in the sky over the east and west coasts of the United States after President Trump announced that he tested COVID-19, but US Strategic Command has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time He says the flights are “purely coincidental. “
“I can verify that those flights planned missions in advance,” U. S. Strategic Command spokesman Matt Miller told the Washington Examiner at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Friday.
“Any time selected for the president’s announcement is purely fortuitous,” he added.
The aircraft is designed to supply airborne nuclear command and in case the floor stops working.
The Navy rejected a request from the Washington Examiner to comment on the flights.
Miller was unable to provide data on the date of development of the project plans, but showed that the project may have been planned yesterday.
While President Trump released the effects of his positive COVID-19 check overnight, White House Senior Counsel Hope Hicks began presenting symptoms of COVID-19 and enlisted on Air Force One on Wednesday night.
The E-6 Mercury manages the Navy’s TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) project to transmit orders to the U. S. submarine fleet capable of launching nuclear ballistic missiles, one of the legs of the U. S. nuclear triad, in crisis.