Remembering The Wild Weasels

We Are The Mighty: YGTBSM: Why Wild Weasels fly into enemy missile envelopes on purpose

The job of a Wild Weasel is the most dangerous mission faced by today’s fighter pilots, a job more hazardous and difficult than shooting down enemy jets, according to retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Hampton in his book Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat.

These gutsy pilots are tasked with flying their specially outfitted fighter jets into enemy surface-to-air missile envelopes in order to bait SAM operators into targeting them with their radars. Once targeted, the radar waves are traced back to their source allowing the Wild Weasels and other attack aircraft to destroy the threat.

WNU Editor: Regular reader and commentator James always likes to remind me of these guys .... the above video is a must see.