{"id":118640,"date":"2024-09-01T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wild-weasels-f-100-f-4g-pioneering-electronic-warfare-usaf-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:00:12","slug":"wild-weasels-f-100-to-f-4g-pioneering-electronic-warfare-in-usaf-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=118640","title":{"rendered":"Wild Weasels F-100 To F-4G: Pioneering Electronic Warfare In USAF Fighter Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    I first heard the term &#8220;Wild Weasel&#8221; used in the military aviation context at the tender age of 15 back on January 17, 1991, the first night of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/samurra-air-battle-history\/\">Persian Gulf War<\/a> (AKA Operation Desert Storm). Like so many fellow Americans, my parents and I were glued to the TV set watching the latest news developments on the war, and at one point, then-NBC News Pentagon correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna3688536\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Fred Francis<\/a> made mention of the F-4G Wild Weasel and its unenviable job of attacking<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/post-sadam-iraqi-air-force\/\"> then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein&#8217;s <\/a>formidable <a href=\"https:\/\/balloonstodrones.com\/2022\/10\/19\/looking-back-at-iraqi-air-defences-during-operation-desert-storm\/\">French-made KARI<\/a> integrated air defense system (IADS) (consisting of air defense radars and surface-to-air missile [SAM] launchers).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild Weasels have a long proud history of carrying out one of the most dangerous and vital jobs in the Air Force: attacking enemy air defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,505,412,13043,11503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-mcdonnell-douglas","category-military","category-persian-gulf-war","category-vietnam-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118641,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118640\/revisions\/118641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}