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Navy Accepts First Upgraded E-6B TACAMO Aircraft

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Navy Accepts First Upgraded E-6B TACAMO Aircraft
Members of the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corp. in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with the first E-6B Mercury upgraded by Northrop Grumman under the new Integrated Modification and Maintenance Contract, including Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, commander of Naval Air Systems Command; and Capt. Adam Scott, program manager for the Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program Office. (Photo: Northrop Grumman Corp. via U.S. Navy)

The Navy recently accepted the first E-6B Mercury Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) upgraded by Northrop Grumman [NOC]. The E-6B aircraft acts as a communications relay and strategic airborne command post aircraft to execute the TACAMO mission that connects the president and Secretary of Defense with Navy nuclear ballistic missile forces during a crisis. It also conducts the Airborne Command Post  mission that aids in the launching of U.S. land-based nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles via an airborne launch control…

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