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Wild Weasel

American  

noun

  1. a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.


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Scattered stars winked overhead, the only other light the white-hot glow from the exhausts of the F-15 fighters escorting Walton and the other Wild Weasel pilots.

From US News • Jan. 17, 2016

George Walton, known as "John Boy," commands the 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron, and he recalls the rush as he guided his F-4G Wild Weasel over the serried ranks of antiaircraft batteries around the Iraqi capital.

From US News • Jan. 17, 2016

If a shooting war broke out, U.S. electronic-warfare planes such as the Air Force's F-4G "Wild Weasel" and the Navy's EA-6B would black out the radar and guidance systems of Iraqi air-defense missiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

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