• just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours ago

      I believe it’s just heavily shielded to prevent EMP from destroying all the electronic surfaces in it. If I remember correctly, it’s outfitted with a ton of comms equipment that duplicate central systems on the ground, so should they be destroyed, this thing just takes off and continuously refuels and flies to prevent getting destroyed, and it keeps military comms running so they can keep launching nukes or whatever.

  • Every time I read “secretary of war” I have to laugh. It exudes so much small dick energy! How insecure you have to be to rename the dept of defense to dept of war just so it sounds “tougher”?

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    2 days ago

    I know there’s a lot of really scary stuff happening with this administration right now, and I really don’t want to seem dismissive of that (its certainly scaring the shit out of me), but honestly, this just seems like Hegseth wanted to ride in the cool plane cos it makes his peepee feel big. Not sure we should read any more into it. If something big was going to go down, it would be Trump on the “doomsday plane”.

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    My guess is there’s a reason this plane is rarely (if ever) seen by the public. Other administrations probably realize that you shouldn’t parade your most important assets around for potential adversaries to study, but oh well, here we are.