The Air Force's NAOC Security Forces team travels with the E-4B Nightwatch aircraft, not as personal guards to the Secretary ...

The E-4B Nightwatch aircraft is a key asset within the USAF and the strategic resilience system of the USA as a whole. Only four such aircraft were produced, and they belong to the 1st Airborne ...

It costs nearly $160,000 per hour to fly the E-4B, making it the most expensive airplane the Air Force operates. And it's built to survive a nuclear blast. To prevent radiation, the windows have a ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) a contract valued at more than $13 billion to deliver a fleet of highly specialized Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC ...

Col. Brian Golden explains the Nightwatch mission. An E-4B Nightwatch airborne command post jet returned safely to Offutt Air Force Base shortly after takeoff Tuesday night after its pilots ...

The 95th Wing, said Col. David Leaumont, fills a critical need centralizing the management of the nation’s nuclear weapons.