VX-4 phantom loads

Tex Houston wrote:

"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Thornborough, in his F-4 book, interviewed several members of the 67th,
and IIRR they described their
pre-emptive tasking. This was largely during LB II. I've also got a
statement from a contemporary
briefing (quoted in the SAAS Thesis "Planting the Seeds of SEAD: The Wild
Weasel in vietnam", by Maj.
William Hewitt, 1993) which describes the use of pre-emptive firings
beginning in about April 1972,
accompanied by a chart which breaks down the firings by missile type,
number fired, type of firing, and
results for the April-October 1972 period. For the USAF it shows 320/678
Shrike launches were pre-emptive
in that period, while the Standard was 0/230. USN usage was 254/1,257,
and 0/165 in the same period.
IIRR, pre-emptive firing had been a navy tactic for some time before the
USAF started to use it.

Guy

Guy and Ed,

If you are interested in all things Weasel, Ed Rock's book is now available
at http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore...x?bookid=28149 .

Thanks for the link. The preview is very interesting, as the date shows that
it is describing the first attack on SAM sites after the first US a/c, an F-4
(or maybe it was an RF-4), had been downed by an SA-2 on 24 July 1965. A real
cluster**** by all accounts, and now we've got the details that explain why.

Guy