He’s thinking of the Wild Weasels aircraft in Vietnam.
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.
It was an insane mission for a pilot to grab the attention and attack Surface to Air Missile Sites (aka SAMS). NUTS!
I used to work with a bunch of wild weasels in the 80s. Get them into a bar and you hear some crazy stories.
My VP’s F-105 was actually hit by a missile. He got the engine restarted at night over mountains.
Dear Enlightened,
re: “He’s thinking of the Wild Weasels aircraft in Vietnam.”
I was the Asst. NCOIC, Calibration Docks, 35th AMS, 35th TFWg, George AFB, CA.
The former home of the F-105G (WW) squadrons, as they transitioned into the F-4G WW’s.
(That was some crazy R and D I was involved with, in that process.) Think of a Standard ARM missile mounted under the wings of a F-4 ...