Flight tests begin on US Air Force’s new ‘doomsday plane’
September 5, 2025
The Air Force and aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. have started flight tests on the service’s next-generation “doomsday plane.”
Flight tests for the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Control, or SAOC, are being held at the Aviation Innovation and Technology Center in Dayton, Ohio, the company said in a Wednesday release.
Sierra Nevada, also known as SNC, carried out the SAOC’s first…