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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:38:43 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:
In article , Ed Rasimus wrote: ECM pods, on the other hand were light, small, low drag and generally uncarted. And, if you were being attacked by a MiG with radar, AKA MiG-21 or -19, you might like to be throwing some electrons his way. You have to rmember that for at least some of the Vietnam War, some pilots didn't like ECM pods at *all*. That would be an understatement at Ubon in early 1967. It was usually a major or above pilot that would start in about pods or rhaw in maintenance debriefing. Weren't manly enough, or something. As a matter of fact.. After they started noticing a somewhat higher survival rate among pilots with pods, they got the message. You might appreciate the little story from Ubon 1967 when the jammer driver came into the storage building laughing. He had been transporting a pod and heard someone yelling behind him. He looked around and here was a crew member running down the ramp after him yelling I want that pod! But by the early 1980s, a lot of jet jockeys were back to the "pods are for wimps" sort of attitude. I saw it every time we loaded the 119s onto F-4s for exercises. And then we had a squadron go to Red Flag, and suddenly all of the pilots were wanting one every damned day... getting "shot down" a few times with no recourse tends to do that. |
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