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U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry, an airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft.
Air-defense computers and communication facilities are widely dispersed to avoid excessive centralization of equipment, which would otherwise make the entire system highly vulnerable to a nuclear attack. By distributing these critical assets and supplementing them with mobile facilities, military forces ensure that the command and control infrastructure remains resilient and capable of functioning even if specific nodes are targeted or destroyed.1