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[@Feisty-Pants]Hmm, interesting to know.
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Yeah, it's actually part of a specific type of mission that pilots fly. They call it the "wild weasel" mission. 

It's a long story, but what happens is two planes (usually F-16s, I got to fly backseat in one once over Mt. McKinley in Alaska. I'd kill to do it again. Did all kinds of acrobatics, flew faster than the speed of sound, flew 500 feet off the ground at .9 mach, it was intense!) Fly towards a suspected SAM site. The lead plane gets targeted by the SAM site and gets shot at and bails to try and avoid getting shot down.

His partner retroactively calculates where the radar burst is coming from and bombs the site while it's targeting his wingman by figuring out the origin point of the radar.

Very neat, huh?

That strategy is where the YGBSM acronym comes from. Or "You Gotta Be Shittin' Me". The electronic warfare officer's reaction when told he's going to be riding backseat into an ordeal where he's [b][i]intentionally[/i][/b] trying to get shot at by a SAM, or Surface-to-Air missile.

Because the missiles are radar guided, they're hard to avoid. So most pilots consider it borderline suicide and go in expecting at least one of them [i]is[/i] going to get shot down.

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You finishing that post soon? If so, I can happily wait to write mine.