WILD WEASEL learned his trade flying for COBRA operations in every hemisphere in which the evil organization conducts its corrupt business. His knowledge of close support aircraft ranges from jury-rigged civilian conversions to state-of-the-art flying weapons platforms. When the COBRA ground forces are engaged in battle, WILD WEASEL swoops in to take out the enemy's armored vehicles. Whatever craft he's flying, he makes the most of the plane's capabilities. As wild and unpredictable as his code name, he'll sometimes buzz his own troops just to cause them trouble. He cut his teeth in the bush wars of South America and Africa, and it is rumored that a mouth injury inflicted during a strafing run was the cause of the characteristic sibilance in his speech pattern.
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| - WILD WEASEL learned his trade flying for COBRA operations in every hemisphere in which the evil organization conducts its corrupt business. His knowledge of close support aircraft ranges from jury-rigged civilian conversions to state-of-the-art flying weapons platforms. When the COBRA ground forces are engaged in battle, WILD WEASEL swoops in to take out the enemy's armored vehicles. Whatever craft he's flying, he makes the most of the plane's capabilities. As wild and unpredictable as his code name, he'll sometimes buzz his own troops just to cause them trouble. He cut his teeth in the bush wars of South America and Africa, and it is rumored that a mouth injury inflicted during a strafing run was the cause of the characteristic sibilance in his speech pattern.
- Wild Weasels are the aircraft crews who try to sniff out and kill enemy anti-aircraft defenses ahead of other air missions, as well as the pop-culture name for that mission. They show up in some flight sims and a few pieces of war literature, but not quite enough to be their own trope; nevertheless, while stories of fighters-versus-SAMs aren't quite as glamorous as hot fighter-on-fighter action (and thus gets way less exposure in popular culture), they're still a very important component of aerial warfare, not to mention an eternal part of the Vietnam War for pilots. In short, they handle Escort Missions where the main threat is a Macross Missile Massacre from surface-to-air missiles instead of enemy aircraft.
- Wild Weasel is a fantastic pilot...it's almost too bad he flies for Cobra. Of course, with his creepy sibilant speech impediment, his fondness for talking to himself, and the fact that he's a total nutbar, it's not like anyone else would put up with him.
- Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Armed Forces specifically the US Air Force to an aircraft, of any type, equipped with radar-seeking missiles and tasked with destroying the radars and SAM installations of enemy air defense systems. The Wild Weasel concept was developed by the United States Air Force in 1965, after the introduction of Soviet SAM missiles and their downing of U.S. strike aircraft over the skies of North Vietnam. The program was headed by General Kenneth Dempster.
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| - WILD WEASEL learned his trade flying for COBRA operations in every hemisphere in which the evil organization conducts its corrupt business. His knowledge of close support aircraft ranges from jury-rigged civilian conversions to state-of-the-art flying weapons platforms. When the COBRA ground forces are engaged in battle, WILD WEASEL swoops in to take out the enemy's armored vehicles. Whatever craft he's flying, he makes the most of the plane's capabilities. As wild and unpredictable as his code name, he'll sometimes buzz his own troops just to cause them trouble. He cut his teeth in the bush wars of South America and Africa, and it is rumored that a mouth injury inflicted during a strafing run was the cause of the characteristic sibilance in his speech pattern.
- Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Armed Forces specifically the US Air Force to an aircraft, of any type, equipped with radar-seeking missiles and tasked with destroying the radars and SAM installations of enemy air defense systems. The Wild Weasel concept was developed by the United States Air Force in 1965, after the introduction of Soviet SAM missiles and their downing of U.S. strike aircraft over the skies of North Vietnam. The program was headed by General Kenneth Dempster. Wild Weasel tactics and techniques began their developmment in 1965 following the commencement of Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War, and were later adapted by other nations during following conflicts, as well as being integrated into the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) a plan used by US air forces to establish immediate air control, prior to possible full scale conflict. Initially known by the operational code "Iron Hand" when first authorized on 12 August 1965, the term "Wild Weasel" derives from Project Wild Weasel, the USAF development program for a dedicated SAM-detection and suppression aircraft. (The technique {or a specific part} was also called an "Iron Hand" mission, though technically the Iron Hand part refers only to a suppression attack that paves the way for the main strike.) Originally named "Project Ferret", denoting a predatory animal that goes into its prey's den to kill it (hence: "to ferret out"), the name was changed to differentiate it from the code-name "Ferret" that had been used during World War II for radar counter-measures bombers. 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. A simple analogy is playing the game of "flashlight tag" in the dark; a flashlight is usually the only reliable means of identifying someone in order to "tag" (destroy) them, but the light immediately renders the bearer able to be identified and attacked as well. The result is a hectic game of cat-and-mouse in which the radar "flashlights" are rapidly cycled on and off in an attempt to identify and kill the target before the target is able to home in on the emitted radar "light" and destroy the site.
- Wild Weasels are the aircraft crews who try to sniff out and kill enemy anti-aircraft defenses ahead of other air missions, as well as the pop-culture name for that mission. They show up in some flight sims and a few pieces of war literature, but not quite enough to be their own trope; nevertheless, while stories of fighters-versus-SAMs aren't quite as glamorous as hot fighter-on-fighter action (and thus gets way less exposure in popular culture), they're still a very important component of aerial warfare, not to mention an eternal part of the Vietnam War for pilots. In short, they handle Escort Missions where the main threat is a Macross Missile Massacre from surface-to-air missiles instead of enemy aircraft.
- Wild Weasel is a fantastic pilot...it's almost too bad he flies for Cobra. Of course, with his creepy sibilant speech impediment, his fondness for talking to himself, and the fact that he's a total nutbar, it's not like anyone else would put up with him.
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