PDF⋙ Wild Weasel Fighter Attack: The Story of the Suppression of Enemy Air Defences by Thomas Withington
Wild Weasel Fighter Attack: The Story of the Suppression of Enemy Air Defences by Thomas Withington Wild Weasel Fighter Attack: The Story of the Suppression of Enemy Air Defences by Thomas Withington PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Detecting and destroying enemy Surface-to-Air Missiles (S.A.M.) and radar is arguably the most dangerous mission that any pilot can undertake. Tactics differ with air forces, but the general principal is to fly a formation of aircraft into an area where the enemy’s air defenses are strong, wait for their radar to illuminate the aircraft and then launch a volley of anti-radiation missiles to destroy the radar and thus blind the S.A.M. and air defenses. Put simply, without the Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (S.E.A.D.) mission, the loss of other aircraft will be too high and the effectiveness of attack on the enemy too low. Despite the undeniable bravery of the aircrews who flew these missions for the United States Air Force in every conflict since the Vietnam wa...