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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
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Subject: Re: why F-4's as Wild Weasels?
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Date: 7 Feb 91 02:18:08 GMT
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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
|> Historical note: The Navy's original "Iron Hand" mission was like the
|> Wild Weasel of the Air Force except that they first used the A-1( if 
|> I recall this correctly).

I would also take this opportunity to recommend Flight of the Intruder
  if you wish to see the early days of the "Iron Hand" role.  There they
  fly the A-6B fitted with Shrike missiles.  In the book they also use
  the larger "Standard ARM".  Both of these were somewhat "dumb" missiles
  and required some amount of tweaking right before launch.  Today we have
  the HARM wich is a semi-intelligent, highly flexible anti-radiation missile.
  It sees most radar emissions and either remembers the target location if it
  shuts down, or picks new targets if they are somewhere in front of the 
  missile.

The F-18 typically carries HARM missiles to support attacking bombers.  I
  believe they go in in a wave, launching the missiles ahead of the bombers.
  Some of the early CNN footage of the war showed F-18's laden with HARMS.

Also, I believe there is a new, super advanced anti-radiation missile being
  developed right now.  Does anyone know if this is correct, or am I confusing
  this with another program somewhere?

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| Scott Silvey           | DOD Spokesman Pete Williams on Cruise Missiles:    |
| scott@xcf.berkeley.edu |   "We just don't discuss that capability.  I can't |
|                        | tell you why we don't discuss it because then I'd  |
| Flames to /dev/null    | be discussing it."                                 |
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