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The Afterburn Podcast

#131 Future of the Wild Weasel - Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD)

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5961 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Flash and Fay here. Welcome to the fifth part of our Evolution of Seed series.

0:05.5

We're going to be talking about the modern warfare as well as future air battles.

0:09.8

I'm here with Kelso Flick, a guy that I really respect his perspective on modern warfare,

0:15.1

and then kind of discussing both the customer perspective of Seed as well as what we think this might look like in the

0:23.5

future as we kind of go forward.

0:25.5

The four parts before this was incredibly enjoyable for myself to talk to guys from Vietnam

0:30.5

into Desert Storm, into Allied Force, into Iraq Part 2, and kind of seeing how all of

0:36.6

the concepts of the Wild weasel mission didn't

0:41.0

necessarily change over time.

0:42.7

They just evolved kind of with our evolution concept of what we've been talking about.

0:47.9

But again, today we're going to take a look at whether those those same seed concepts are

0:52.2

actually applicable to future warfare or what might need to change

0:56.6

and how we might fight these things as we kind of go from like we talked about the post-Clobal

1:01.2

war on terror environment to what we are now shifting from great power competition to potentially

1:07.1

strategic power competition against big state actors such as Russia, China,

1:12.8

and some others.

1:14.0

So Kelso, thanks for joining me, man.

1:15.8

I really appreciate any time we can have you on and let's get right to it.

1:20.9

Yeah, thanks for having me on.

1:22.1

Always happy to be here.

1:23.9

Dude, so, so as an 8-10 guy, but also somebody who understands kind of air power and the projection of air power, strike packages, Cesar, all these kind of things, as you have been kind of a student of military history and looking at how all of the mission sets that come together,

1:47.1

both supporting and supported kind of missions to put together a strike package,

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