The US has had airborne Nuclear aircraft airborne since the inception of our Strategic Air Command. Sometimes having two types of aircraft in use due to the constantly updating and new aircraft program. Even today we continue to update the Nuclear Air arm and keep them flying 24\7. Those other countries also have the equivalent, if they don't then they are fools. Every delivery platform is never out of range. You call them operations and we call them Missions.. It takes a long time to get B-52s airborne, use them or lose them. Today we have the B-1 which was initially designed as the replacement Nuke carrier for the B-52, but with so much trouble in the world in a conventional war it has been re fitted to carry normal ordinance, it you can call smart bombs normal. It can do Nuclear or Conventional and again it is always airborne as well as the B-52s. I don't believe there is any law that says nations cannot fly nuclear aircraft loaded. You can bet all our ships are loaded with nuclear weapons even our cruise missiles have Nuclear versions aboard. Russia and China are doing the same, those backfire bombers flying over the northern most ice caps most definitely carry nuclear weapons. That is why they are always intercepted and escorted until they leave the area. Israel is the number one target of Iran so they take it very seriously. The information you ask about is common knowledge, there is no point in having nuclear weapons if you can't deliver them. We always have a command and control aircraft airborne as the central control for all nuclear airborne aircraft. There are fuel tankers airborne all the time to make sure those other assets are always prepared. We might have a squid for a President but thankfully he has less control as he thinks he has. We have much smarter people airborne
“Israel has always had an aircraft airborne carrying a nuke. They have to simply because they are surrounded by enemies and have no warning time to load and launch an aircraft. Same thing we do same thing Russia does and China.”
I have to ask, where do you get your information on any of these four countries exercising such nuclear operations (i.e., continuous airborne nuke(s))?
RL
I'm nearly 100% certain that the US at least stopped 24/7 nuclear armed flights back in the early 70s.
Not aware of other nations stances but having beeing involved in QRA/QRF scenarios of RS5/10 I'd be amazed if anyone does that these days.