“They wouldn’t be able to install the kinds of capabilities you typically find on an Air Force One,” said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory, describing a retrofit timeline of less than four years.
“In terms of encrypted communications, to electronic warfare, to back-up power systems — it wouldn’t have any of that in that time frame,” Aboulafia said. “Anybody on that jet would be advised to use burner phones and watch what they say.”
Nicholas Veronico, a former NASA contractor who worked on 747s and is an author of a book on Air Force One, agreed that a shorter timeframe would be problematic.
“If the conversion can be done within a year and President Trump is flying around the world in this new less-than-Air-Force-One Air Force One, then he’s flying in a compromised airplane. And we’re putting our president at risk,” Veronico said.
“If the conversion can be done within a year and President Trump is flying around the world in this new less-than-Air-Force-One Air Force One, then he’s flying in a compromised airplane. And we’re putting our president at risk,” Veronico said.
I say give the orange man what he wants.
get him an xbox controller and submarine built in a back yard while we’re at it.
Oh shit, now I get it. They’ll know where he is at all times. He’s already been compromised, but well protected.
Give Paul Atreides the luxury Arrakeen apartment.
Hopefully The Shadout Mapes does not bumble into the apartment.
