Air Force One: The “Flying White House” – Security Systems and the Planes That Go with It

For its security systems Air Force One the aeronautical engineer and magazine editor, Phaidon Karaiosifidis, spoke on the NEWSROOM show and the journalists Stavroula Christophilea and Maki Provatas. “It’s definitely a flying White House. Of course, what you didn’t see in the scene is the following: the time when the plane of the American president was approachingone of her rockets was intercepted Hamas (from Israel) and was visible from certain angles, i.e. it was about 7-8 kilometers from the airport[…] There is a video,” he initially said.

To a question about whether the aircraft itself could be intercepted, Mr. Karaiosisfidis replied “here we are entering uncharted waters. First of all, let’s say that the plane is a 747-200b, it is exactly the plane that the old Olympic Aviation once had. Of course, it has nothing to do with the commercial airplanes we used to travel with, which have now disappeared from the planet. There is no other similar plane in service except for some carriers.

It is one fully rebuilt plane to serve the continuation of the government of the United States in the event of a crisis. And over there there’s an oval office, there’s a briefing room, there’s telecommunications. And of course the question is whether there are weapons.

With the information we have there are defense systemsthat is, there are corresponding consumables of electronic warfare, such as fighter planes, thermoballs and airfoils, which intercept or rather deceive missiles that will be launched against him. And there are electronic warfare systems for both threat detection and threat interception.

“Of course again what we don’t see is that the plane never goes on its own when it starts, let’s say from Langley, from the United States, it becomes a kind of “relay” with American fighters, which accompany it on the various legs and we find planes waiting for it in the Azores to take it to Spain. We find planes from Spain and then he is taken over by aircraft carriers that are in, say, the Mediterranean.

Also we don’t see his escort, which is usually an airplane, which is also a 747 and is called an E-4. It is the flying command center. If necessary, the American president gets on it and from there he can command all the units of the American armed forces, including ballistic missiles, including submarines, including bombers. So, he can give the battle in part of a war crisis from this plane. This whole swarm of planes is literally going in a herd. That is, when the plane was landing Biden on Tel Aviv what we can assume, because we don’t know 100%, was that the second plane, the E-4B was in Souda and was waiting there until the next leg of the American president. That is, if he moved away and went to, say, Saudi Arabia, it would follow him and land at an alternate airport. They never go together.”