"Wild Lika": Ukrainian pilots use US tactics against Russian air defense (video)

It was developed in the United States during the Vietnam War. The tactics are that pilots allow themselves to dream of enemy radars. Then the aircraft had to launch a bomb or rocket at the radar place. In Ukrainian realities, this seems that the anti-radiological rocket AGM-88 Harm fixes the radar location and is given and strikes it. All this happens faster than the Russian CRC will launch an anti -aircraft missile against the fighter. The term "wild grace" comes from Project Wild Weasel.

The US Army used direct attacks to suppress enemy air defense in Vietnam. Thus, the road for assault planes was cleared. F-4 Phantom II aircraft had radar receivers that determined the location of the air defense complex. The HARM rocket, which was integrated into Soviet aircraft in Ukraine, has a range of about 150 km (90 miles). It can detect and affect the radar of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation even after switching off the radar station.

"Ukraine is clearly learning Western military opinion. Ukraine pays great attention to SEAD and DEAD missions," said Frederick Mertens, a strategic analyst of the Hague Strategic Studies Center. However, operations are extremely dangerous. The Russians have already adapted to HARM on Ukrainian aircraft. Therefore, Analystin Justin Bronk from the Rusi Center believes that rockets are used as a means of suppressing enemy air defense.

"Rockets force Russian SCR operators to turn off their radars and change their location to avoid their damage. This creates a short window within which other shock systems such as Himars or Storm Shadow may break through to the closest goals with a much lower risk of being intercepted ZRK, "the Bronk summarized. We will remind, in Germany they were offered to close part of the sky above Ukraine through Poland and Romania.