Originally posted by Raider179
How do you quote numbers from an unkown source? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. I can tell you right now If any 1 sam site/operator shot down anywhere near 196 planes it would have been destroyed and everything in the area would have gotten flattened in the process. You watched that show on discovery then you saw how deadly the wild weasels became at their job.
I can just picture these SAM operators firing off salvo's of SAM's then shutting of their radar when weasel's are coming in and then claiming kills so that they dont get shot for turning their radars off.
I don't have discovery. Anyway their historical programms are like comic books
Are you aquainted with SAM tactics?
My Uncle was severely wounded by one of the first Shrikes. They understood how to deal with them pretty soon.
Good, echeloned SAM defence is very hard to beat. Weasels were killed in ambushes just like other planes. Using one launcher as a bait against bait and then shredding weasels with Shilkas was just one of the tactics successfully used.
Also please don't forget that S-75 is... hmmm... I can call it "mobile". In Syria Soviet crews used only 3-4 trucks to hunt, manual tracking. Uncle said they worked mostly on manual tracking too.