Wide knowledge about these planes basically makes them worthless. Theoretical agressor would make sure to track and take all of these planes out first, togethe

Wide knowledge about these planes basically makes them worthless. Theoretical agressor would make sure to track and take all of these planes out first, together with other command centers, satellites, relaying stations, etc. Russian version - “dead hand”, uses hidden underground rocket silos (and mobile as well AFAIK). Upon loss of “ping” from a command center, rocket is launched across whole country, broadcasting launch codes for all nuclear rockets to start. Likely US has something similar as well. Maybe even E-6B is a decoy/honey pot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)