'Doomsday Plane' Flies Out Of U.S. Amid War In Iran
- 6.03.2026, 8:39
Analysts have taken notice of an unusual route.
The American naval aircraft E-6 Mercury left the territory of the United States and traveled across the Atlantic. This aircraft serves as an air command post in case of a national emergency, writes "Focus".
The unusual route of the E-6 Mercury "doomsday plane" was brought to the attention of an OSINT analyst who writes at X under the nickname Egypt's Intel Observer.
"Wow, a U.S. Navy E-6 Mercury just left U.S. territory and is heading across the Atlantic," he wrote a few hours ago.
OSINT analyst also explained that the E-6 Mercury serves as an airborne command center in the event of a national emergency. This includes relaying orders to launch nuclear weapons on behalf of the U.S. president to nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers.
Comments first suggested that the "doomsday plane" was headed for the Middle East, but Egypt's Intel Observer later reported that the E-6 Mercury eventually landed in Norway.
Commenters noted that they often see the E-6 Mercury when it flies somewhere, but the author of the post clarified that the "doomsday plane" flew across the Atlantic Ocean, which is unusual.
The screenshot he took shows the "empty callsign," or "empty callsign" mark. This means the aircraft is not transmitting a unique identifier, which is often due to privacy locks, which is common for private/business jets that may request to hide their personal information from publicly available tracking services, technical problems with the transponder, or raw data. Although most aircraft display a flight number or flight number, the phrase "no call sign" means the information is missing, hidden, or not recognized.
Military or special flights may not use standard call signs for security or operational reasons.
Some have speculated that the "doomsday plane" left the U.S. because on the night of March 3, at the height of the war in the Middle East, the U.S. conducted a ballistic missile test off the coast of California .
The Minuteman III ballistic missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was launched from the Vandenberg Space Center near Santa Barbara.
According to a U.S. Space Force report, the unarmed missile, known as GT 254, hit its intended target near the Marshall Islands in the west-central Pacific Ocean.