HOW THE U.S F-16 WILD WEASELS DESTROY IRANIAN SAMS

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LOOK at the multiple billions of pesos United States Air Force F-16 Block 50/52 Wild Weasel (red circle) that I am pointing with my right finger at the tarmac in Basa Air Base in Pampanga when the Gringos brought 12 of 'em from Japan for the Cope Thunder Exercise with the FA-50 jets of the Philippines Air Force.

Below are the role of the Wild Weasels in destroying the surface- to- air- missile (SAM) batteries of Iran when the U.S and Israel pounced vigorously yesterday the Gulf State reigned by a despotic Ayatollah:

-- Phase one already happened. Eleven F-22 Raptors from Ovda entered Iranian airspace invisible to whatever air defenses survived June 2025. Their mission was not to bomb. Their mission was to map every radar emission, destroy every surface-to-air battery that powered up, and create corridors of absolute silence through which everything that follows can pass undetected. This is what F-22s did to Russian S-300s in Venezuela. No interceptor fired. The entire network went dark. Iran’s rebuilt air defenses likely suffered the same fate in the opening minutes.

-- Phase three comes overnight. Six F-16CM Block 50s confirmed at Diego Garcia. These are Wild Weasel variants, built specifically to hunt and kill radar systems. They extend the suppression campaign that the F-22s began. Behind them at Diego Garcia sit the assets that end this: B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carrying GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the 30,000 pound bombs designed for one purpose on earth, punching through the reinforced concrete and mountain rock protecting Fordow.

MY TAKE BASED ON MY INTERVIEW WITH THE U.S F-16 PILOT AND BUTTRESSED BY SOME RESEARCHES:

The single-seat Block 50/52 F-16C is specifically tasked with this mission and aircraft modified for this mission are designated F-16CJ/DJ. The pilot now performs both the role of flying the airplane and targeting and employing against ground threats. Other aircraft, while capable of engaging anti-air emplacements, are typically tasked with other primary missions; the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog", primarily tasked with CAS missions, lacks the avionics to perform a true Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission and does not carry the AGM-88 HARM.

The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system. Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation when it purchased the defense production business of Texas Instrument.