A high school classmate of mine flew the F-4G Wild Weasel and an other was an Instructor Pilot in the F-16 CJ Wild Weasel. Also, a couple of years ago I spoke to a Viper pilot who flew the latest version of the Viper Weasel at Langley AFB. The upgrades were amazing.
Love how the narrator says "Electronic Warfare", kind of funny. Like a computer sales person at Best Buy going " buy your very own Digital Personnel Computing Device, the way of the Future " Just cracked me up. "Advanced Electronic Warfare, the future is here and now (guitar in the background)"
OGs. Two original WW were awarded the medal of honor. Leo Thorsness and Merlyn Dethlefsen. Leo was Pow. Merlyn completed his 100 missions and returned home.
@@RedFail1-1 yeah they were. I retired early 90's and never thought I'd hear a 16 fire up again then happened to be in Arizona and caught the air show with the thunderbirds flying them. Then the F-22's fired up. The ground rumbled like with an old time dragster.
It amazes me they go into a hot AO! Trying to get shot at by something that can fallow their aircraft. O by the way it is the size of a telephone pole. It doesn't have to touch them just get close. They end up a POW or KIA.
they have, standoff missile is the answer for ya. But standoff AGMs were heavy, while it could be carried by multi-role aircraft such as F-15, F-16, and F/A-18s, the weight and the maneuverability penalties is significant. usually standoff AGM were carried by bomber aircraft like B-52 and B-1. Although it's not unusual for multi-role aircraft carries it during strike mission such as AGM-154 frequently carried by F/A-18
@@bollewillem1 its tongue and cheek as the F4G was the last purpose built SEAD aircraft. And the closure of the wild weasle school by the usaf in the early 90s. The vipers guys do a good job with the equipment they have. But at the end of the day they fly a multirole aircraft that is master of none. The F4G system outperforms HTS vipers in every area for SEAD
@@mikel1062 Worked on them, avionics. The (mechanical tuned and 'rock (crystal) bound' 20 channel Auxiliary Recvr., was fun to work on-unless we had a run on them were I was doing nothing but work on them for three weeks. Then it was a 'shoot me now' feeling from boredom. One of the units was part of the original 10, proof of concept. The underside did not match the T.O.'s (tech orders). I kept that thing operational until someone dropped it and bent the frame.
@@rhetthart9311 Top Gun Maverick is too delayed BTW.... moreover as an unlucky medical student whos ass is being grinded in Med School and aspired to be an aviator.... i am shitscared of the upcoming PROFF EXAMS and i have to tackle some other shit too
@@SM_Fato I hope your med exams go well, all the best and hoping you can get a little but of sleep tonight. I actually just applied for the us airforce officer training program at a college. So its the beginning of my journey of hoops to jump through.
The SEAD missions seem to depend on getting painted and attacked in order to identify gun and missile emplacements, but why don't these weasel missions use airplanes with stealth features that would allow weasels to troll with high reflectivity profiles and then switch to stealth profile once their target has been identified and they need to avoid missies and AA?
USAF really screwed up by not upgrading the f16's to xl type that competed f15e's, higher payload and range, maybe IDF will be sharp enough to upgrade their's to that level. Delta wings have always been better, as per f106 etc.
Not really. You'll need to be as stealthy as possible in anything resembling a modern IADS environment because if you get seen, _you're dead_ because SAMs and AAGs have improved to the point that, to be frank, are immune to most SEAD/DEAD tactics.
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A high school classmate of mine flew the F-4G Wild Weasel and an other was an Instructor Pilot in the F-16 CJ Wild Weasel. Also, a couple of years ago I spoke to a Viper pilot who flew the latest version of the Viper Weasel at Langley AFB. The upgrades were amazing.
You're such a weasel! smh
EW 98-2006. Worked on some COOL equipment.
Why I like this vid: because if this is the shit we know about, JUST IMAGINE the shit that's classified/need-to-know! USMC, Cold-War vet
During Red Flag 1983 I saw a great many dual passenger F-16 air craft. I speculate the passenger was a WSO
Love how the narrator says "Electronic Warfare", kind of funny. Like a computer sales person at Best Buy going " buy your very own Digital Personnel Computing Device, the way of the Future " Just cracked me up. "Advanced Electronic Warfare, the future is here and now (guitar in the background)"
OGs. Two original WW were awarded the medal of honor. Leo Thorsness and Merlyn Dethlefsen. Leo was Pow. Merlyn completed his 100 missions and returned home.
Brave plots !hats off to them
F-16 was also Known as The Electric Lawn Dart. 83-87 USAF
And the front end was the 'giant bug sucker',. And you couldn't just clamber into the seat, to do maint., like you could with the F-4 or T-33.
Yeah. Decades ago
@@RedFail1-1 yeah they were. I retired early 90's and never thought I'd hear a 16 fire up again then happened to be in Arizona and caught the air show with the thunderbirds flying them.
Then the F-22's fired up. The ground rumbled like with an old time dragster.
It amazes me they go into a hot AO! Trying to get shot at by something that can fallow their aircraft. O by the way it is the size of a telephone pole. It doesn't have to touch them just get close. They end up a POW or KIA.
The latest Viper upgrades are absolutely incredible, it’s one aircraft you don’t want to go up against in combat.
None of those C-130's were EC's. No jamming antennas.
B roll, like the rest of the documentary. This was made back in the day. Interivews and B roll were 90% of the films
Could they have a HARM missile with loiter capability to suppress some air defense sites? Could they use drones in the Wild Weasel role?
That is harder than you think and drones are becoming useless in combat in anything resembling a peer battlefield.
Watch a video from a channel called the operations room on the desert storm air war
@@TheTrueAdept Watch a video from a channel called the operations room on the desert storm air war you'd be surprised
they have, standoff missile is the answer for ya. But standoff AGMs were heavy, while it could be carried by multi-role aircraft such as F-15, F-16, and F/A-18s, the weight and the maneuverability penalties is significant.
usually standoff AGM were carried by bomber aircraft like B-52 and B-1. Although it's not unusual for multi-role aircraft carries it during strike mission such as AGM-154 frequently carried by F/A-18
@@nabilbudiman271 modern drones are doing it right now
Time to go watch Flight of the Intruder.
Wild weasel mission died with the F4G. F16s are Mild weasels
Read Dan Hampton’s book ‘Viper Pilot’ and you will learn that it is not a mild weasel at all.
@@bollewillem1 its tongue and cheek as the F4G was the last purpose built SEAD aircraft. And the closure of the wild weasle school by the usaf in the early 90s. The vipers guys do a good job with the equipment they have. But at the end of the day they fly a multirole aircraft that is master of none. The F4G system outperforms HTS vipers in every area for SEAD
@@mikel1062 Worked on them, avionics. The (mechanical tuned and 'rock (crystal) bound' 20 channel Auxiliary Recvr., was fun to work on-unless we had a run on them were I was doing nothing but work on them for three weeks. Then it was a 'shoot me now' feeling from boredom.
One of the units was part of the original 10, proof of concept. The underside did not match the T.O.'s (tech orders). I kept that thing operational until someone dropped it and bent the frame.
Greetings from Pakistan ♥️ 🇵🇰
BTW EA-18G Growler is my favorite EW aircraft
if your nice to India maybe Lockheed will give you some cool stuff, until then talk to the Russians about some flankers
@@rhetthart9311 This diplomatic attitude is beyond your and my scope of understanding.
@@SM_Fato hahha, makes sense mate. Hope we can ship some growlers your way soon. I hope in the mean time you can watch top gun 2
@@rhetthart9311 Top Gun Maverick is too delayed BTW.... moreover as an unlucky medical student whos ass is being grinded in Med School and aspired to be an aviator.... i am shitscared of the upcoming PROFF EXAMS and i have to tackle some other shit too
@@SM_Fato I hope your med exams go well, all the best and hoping you can get a little but of sleep tonight. I actually just applied for the us airforce officer training program at a college. So its the beginning of my journey of hoops to jump through.
ECM USAF 77-83 good education
The SEAD missions seem to depend on getting painted and attacked in order to identify gun and missile emplacements, but why don't these weasel missions use airplanes with stealth features that would allow weasels to troll with high reflectivity profiles and then switch to stealth profile once their target has been identified and they need to avoid missies and AA?
With drones and TALD decoy missiles theres no reason
USAF really screwed up by not upgrading the f16's to xl type that competed f15e's, higher payload and range, maybe IDF will be sharp enough to upgrade their's to that level. Delta wings have always been better, as per f106 etc.
Not really. You'll need to be as stealthy as possible in anything resembling a modern IADS environment because if you get seen, _you're dead_ because SAMs and AAGs have improved to the point that, to be frank, are immune to most SEAD/DEAD tactics.
and finally all morphs into todays prowler the F18 EG