When it comes to the world's most advanced, safest and most mysterious aircraft, I think everyone will think of the US president's special car "Air Force One" for the first time, because of its luxurious internal facilities, this aircraft was once called "Flying White House", so how luxurious is the interior of "Air Force One"? How does this aircraft withstand enemy attacks? Compared with the new type of car that Putin has spent 3.4 billion yuan to order, which is better or worse?
Before introducing the luxury and toughness of this aircraft, let us first add a few small pieces of knowledge to you, first of all, Air Force One refers to not a single aircraft, for now, it refers to two "Boeing 747-200BVC-25A"; secondly, "Air Force One" only refers to these two aircraft temporarily, because in fact it is a synonym for all presidential aircraft, and only when the president is on the plane, it can be called "Air Force One".
Some friends here may wonder, since the two Boeing 747s can not refer to "Air Force One", then why can't they be called by their original names? In fact, the reason for this incident can be traced back to Eisenhower's tenure, when there was a small story that was not very pleasant.
Eisenhower took the special aircraft call sign is "Air Force 8610", usually this number will not be anything wrong, but one day when Eisenhower traveled in the Air Force 8610, suddenly encountered another china Eastern Airlines civil flight in an airspace, it just so happened that the call sign of the flight was also "8610", which made a little misunderstanding at the time, although there was no accident in the end, but its potential danger was still detected by people. So after that, the Air Force changed the president's special class call sign to "Air Force One."
This tradition began during the Eisenhower era and continues to this day.
So it is reasonable to say that there is one Air Force One, why prepare two? Isn't that a form of extravagance?
In fact, the role that two presidential planes can play is far from being comparable to one, in short, if one of them fails, then the president can travel on the other without delaying time; if there is no problem with both planes, then they will fly together, and before the plane lands, you will never know which plane the US president is sitting on, which undoubtedly greatly increases its safety.
In addition to these usual situations, in extreme cases the mission of the second standby aircraft is also quite difficult, when the president rides on the special opportunity to attack the enemy missile, the idle standby aircraft will guide the missiles through special means, on the one hand, to maintain the safety of the president, on the other hand, it also acts as a role in attracting firepower, which determines that the president of the United States is basically not dangerous, and similar means are available in many countries, such as the car of President Putin of Russia is 4 aircraft. It's more numerous than the U.S. president's car.
When both aircraft are irresistibly threatened and attacked by enemy missiles, the president of the United States will be ejected to a safe place by the specially customized catapult seats on the aircraft, and the parachute equipped with the seats can also ensure that the president lands safely.
After talking about this, let's take a look at the luxury and strength of Air Force One.
Luxury is needless to say, the internal facilities of "Air Force One" are aligned with the White House, and it can even be said that the internal standard of this aircraft is "what is in the White House, we all want; what is not in the White House, we can also have." Study, dining room, bedroom needless to say, this plane even has a special bathroom, lounge, studio and even a medical room, coupled with a certain entertainment facilities, sitting there plus 6-story plane you can hardly have any needs not to meet.
This 20-meter-high, 70-meter-long, up-to-375-ton aircraft, the cost is naturally not cheap, it is said that each cost is above 350 million US dollars, but a penny of goods, in addition to the luxurious facilities inside the aircraft, the performance of the fuselage itself is also very strong.
Under normal circumstances, this aircraft can fly 10,000 kilometers uninterrupted; and if there is an aerial refueling tanker, it is even more outrageous, it is said that in the case of sufficient fuel, such an aircraft can even mediate in the air for a week, which is almost equivalent to an "castle in the air".
In addition to the very long flight time, the other performance of this aircraft is also quite powerful, the world's most advanced jamming system and electronic countermeasure system can allow it to get rid of the enemy's aiming; and the armor that can resist the impact of nuclear explosions can make the passengers in the aircraft feel at ease, and it is in this configuration that the United States' "Air Force One" will have the nicknames of "the aircraft that never falls", "the most sophisticated and destructive aircraft in the world" and so on.
As we said above, Air Force One itself is already the world's top aircraft, so how can Putin spend 3.4 billion custom-built cars compared to it?
First of all, from the internal design, it must be that the US president's "Air Force One" is more luxurious, after all, US President Trump has previously disliked the "Air Force One" too "shabby", and has specially spent a lot of money to modify it, so that the interior of Air Force One must have made great progress, and the "Air White House" has gone further, and its luxury is not difficult for everyone to imagine.
Putting aside the interior, from the performance point of view, the overall performance of the two aircraft should be similar, after all, long before this, the US Air Force department has put many "black technology" in the field of aviation on the Air Force No. 1, Putin's car wants to surpass it in the overall cutting-edge technology is indeed difficult; but Russia, as another power in the aviation field, the presidential car prepared for Putin is certainly not bad, so from the performance point of view, the two should be roughly similar.
In general, the United States' investment in the "presidential car" is still very high, but this is also normal, after all, for the travel safety of a country's supreme leader, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars in aircraft costs can be said to be not worth mentioning, and in the future, "Air Force One" will inevitably achieve new breakthroughs and innovations, as for the specific level can be reached, we need to wait and see.