The Doomsday plane is a planned Airborne Command Post to be operated by the

Russian Air Force The Russian Air Force () is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on 1 August 2015 with the merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the reb ...

. It is based on the Ilyushin Il-96-400-M commercial aircraft airframe and is scheduled to replace the older

Ilyushin Il-80 The Ilyushin Il-80 (NATO reporting name: Maxdome) is a Russian airborne command and control aircraft modified from the Ilyushin Il-86 airliner. Development The Ilyushin Il-80 has the NATO reporting name Maxdome (though some sources claim it u ...

models introduced in the early 1990s. The production of the aircraft was delayed multiple times and is now scheduled to be started in 2024.

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Boeing E-4 The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post (AACP), the current "Nightwatch" aircraft, is a series of strategic command and control military aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). The E-4 series are specially modified from ...

* Boeing E-6 Mercury * Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A *

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