FPP095 - Surface-to-Air Threats: SAMs
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | If you're a long time listener of the Fighter Pilot Podcast, you've heard us discuss Sam's or surface-to-air missiles plenty of times |
| 0:37.8 | first on episode 9 with Willie D. I feel this white flash like when you flip your bathroom lights on in the morning and I look out and just as I'm looking out I see this |
| 0:46.8 | this exhaust of a missile right at our right two o'clock position from the cockpit and |
| 0:51.2 | then I hear what sounds like somebody taking a handful of |
| 0:54.3 | bebies and throwing inside of a car. Realized that what I just seen was a |
| 0:58.4 | service there missile thinking what the heck was at and it almost cost us our |
| 1:02.4 | lives. |
| 1:03.0 | And then again on episode 53 with fingers. |
| 1:06.1 | We just crossed the beach and going to our cap station |
| 1:09.8 | and we got taken under fire by several surface-air missile batteries. |
| 1:14.8 | So we just did a fight in nature. |
| 1:16.5 | We started fighting telephone poles. |
| 1:19.3 | And successfully dodged a couple of them. |
| 1:21.7 | And I was, remember I was looking behind us of one that we had just |
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