I think it largely (for the Buff at any rate) depends on how
much SEAD or degredation of the enemy air defense network has occurred
beforehand.

Why single out just the BUFF? The BUFF is as surviveable, or even more in some
cases, as the B-1B. This myth has got to die sometime.

Hey, BUFDRVR, anyone take a (guided) potshot at you and yours during OAF?

Not really. Intermitant looks every now and than, but not enough to guide a
missile. Although the Serbs were pretty good (acurate) at optical shots, the
Iraqis not so much.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"