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Fighter Pilot Podcast

FPP095 - Surface-to-Air Threats: SAMs

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

A discussion on the "flying telephone poles" responsible for the downing of hundreds of coalition aircraft since first debuting in the Vietnam conflict. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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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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