The Hunter Killers - Dan Hampton
Category: Military
Narrator: John Pruden
Tags: Military, Action, History, Adults
The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War, A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret Wild Weasel missions during the Vietnam War - which used controversial and revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology - from New York Times best-selling author Dan Hampton., On July 24, 1965, Soviet advisors to North Vietnam launched an SA-2 surface-to-air missile (SAM), blowing an American F-4 Phantom out of the sky - the first of several kills using this menacing system. To counter this new weaponry, stunned Pentagon officials created a classified program - Wild Weasel I - pairing experimental equipment with a highly select group of electronic warfare officers and fighter pilots to combat this deadly threat. The men who did this became the Hunter Killers - and it is time to know their names., Fifty years later Dan Hampton provid
