Washington (CNN)Ten US Air Force planes, including two E-4B "doomsday" aircraft, were damaged when a tornado hit near Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska last week, the service told CNN on Friday.
Nicknamed the Air Force's "doomsday" plane, the Boeing-made E-4B serves as an aerial command center in case of national emergency or destruction of ground bases.
It provides a "highly survivable command, control and communications center to direct US forces, execute emergency war orders and coordinate actions by civil authorities," according to the Air Force.
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only there was some way the Air Force could have gotten these planes out of the path of the tornado.
