In more recent years it has been more officially referred to as the ABNCP (Airborne National Command Post). [1] It provides command and control of U.S. nuclear forces in the event that …

While it primarily functions as a communications relay platform for submarines with its two trailing antenna wires, it also serves as an Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS). The ALCS is …

The first and most famous example of SAC Airborne Command Posts (ABNCP) was a modified C-135 aircraft and crew, call sign “Looking Glass”, so named because its mission was to …

Communications relay and strategic airborne command post aircraft. Provides survivable, reliable, and endurable airborne command, control, and communications between the National …

The ALCS Training and Evaluation Flight trains and supports airborne missileers who operate the ALCS onboard the USSTRATCOM Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), as well as those who …

Oct 25, 2023 · The E-6 Mercury serves as an “Airborne Command Post” (ABNCP), initially under Operation Looking Glass, utilized by the Navy to provide instructions to the country's nuclear …

SAC ABNCP or Looking Glass was on continuous airborne alert and would transmit CINCSAC directions to SAC forces, manage the PACCS, and track all SAC forces, nuclear weapons, …

On 3 February 1961, the KC-135A Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) began flying continuous airborne operations, with additional back-up aircraft on 15-minute ground alert. The KC-135A …

Mar 1, 2016 · An EC-135C (LOOKING GLASS or SAC ABNCP) maintained airborne alert status 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This WEB site is dedicated to those men and women that …

From the initial deployment of Looking Glass, Strategic Air Command designated this program as the ABNCP, Airborne Command Post. Beginning on March 25, 1965 ABNCP was then …