Wild Weasel -Vietnam

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Wild Weasel - Wikipedia
    In brief, the task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source, allowing the Weasel or its teammates to precisely target it for destruction. A simple analogy is playing the game of "flashlight tag" in the dark; a flashlight is usually the only reliable means of identifying someone in order to "tag" (destroy) them, but the light immediately renders the bearer able to be identified and attacked as well. The result is a hectic game of cat-and-mouse in which the radar "flashlights" are rapidly cycled on and off in an attempt to identify and kill the target before the target is able to home in on the emitted radar "light" and destroy the site.


    Watched a prog on one of the discovery channels and had forgotten about the Wild Weasels.

    Very interesting
    Quote from a pilot
    "So you want me to fly into enemy airspace and get locked on by a missile then fire a missile down the radar track"
     

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