News @lemmy.world girlfreddy @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

US Air Force awards $13 billion Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada

www.reuters.com /business/aerospace-defense/us-air-force-awards-doomsday-plane-contract-sierra-nevada-2024-04-26/

The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nuclear war.

The Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) project is intended to replace the aging 1970s-era aircraft, which is approaching end-of-service life, an Air Force spokesperson said in a statement.

Work on the SAOC will be carried out in Colorado, Nevada and Ohio and is expected to be completed in 2036, the Air Force added.

Reuters in December reported that the U.S. Air Force eliminated Boeing from its competition to develop a successor to the E-4B Nightwatch.

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And here I thought at first glance that they gave a plane contract to a brewery.
- They had to choose between a brewery and Boeing. The brewery at least understood how important process control is.
- I was thinking a software publisher
  
  My mind also went to Sierra Entertainment. From Leisure Suit Larry to Doomsday Planes, they can do it all.
$13 billion could save so many lives around the world, bring food and healthcare to so many people...
- The time you spent browsing and commenting on Lemmy could have been used to help the lives of so many people in need in your area.
  
  They aren't wrong.
  
  You, on the ather hand, are.
  
  Buddy, I'm the one in need of help
- The us defense budget for '25 is $849 billion. That budget could save everyone, or kill everyone... Instead it'll be used to prepare to kill
Reuters in December reported that the U.S. Air Force eliminated Boeing from its competition to develop a successor to the E-4B Nightwatch.

No surprises here.
$13B would be better spent preventing Doomsday. Building a plane needed as all other bases are gone seems like a fools errand for sure. What are they commanding at this point as humanity has lost.
- Revenge
  
  They should name it that, like the pirate ship.
People are only nice to white people because they really fucking nuts.

White people and their self made apocalypse has got to be the laziest and dumbest bullshit ever created.

Paranoid losers.
- Not sure why you gotta bring skin color into this?
  
  It’s ok to be racist now if you direct it properly.
- Dont worry dude, China intends on catching up and building up their nuclear arsenal to the level of the US and Russia.
  
  https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-nuclear-arsenal-more-than-500-warheads-pentagon-report-2023-10-19/
  
  So i guess "yellow" people have joined the "white" people's paranoia. I dont see how race is relevant in any way.
- People are crazy, this aint a white people thing. Have ya ever looked up the rape of Nanking, Imperial Japan wouldve drowned the world in nuclear fire if they had gotten the bomb first. So fucken knock it off with the dumbfuck bullshit.

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