Moscow – President Vladimir Putin has ordered the deployment of two new ‘Doomsday planes’ to control the command of the Russian Defence Forces during a nuclear war. Sources said that the construction of the aircraft is underway at the Voronezh Aviation Plant in Russia. The new Doomsday planes will be based on the four-engine IL 96-400M passenger jet.
In the event of a nuclear war or another catastrophic disaster, the aircraft with the systems to handle the defence command in case of destruction of the command system is known as a ‘Doomsday plane’. Both the United States and Russia are said to have four Doomsday planes each. Russia’s Doomsday planes are from the 1970s and 1980s generations and are based on the IL-80 passenger aircraft.
