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Billy Preston wrote:

One B-52G was even damaged by a hit from an AGM-88A HARM missile fired by
another US aircraft that was providing defense suppression support for the
attacking
force.
The missile managed to home in on the tail-mounted gun-laying radar of the
B-52G, and
obliterated a sizable chunk of the rear fuselage when it hit. Fortunately,
the damaged
B-52G was able to land safely at Jeddah.

I've talked to guys who were on that jet and they all tell the same, humerous,
story. At first impact they were all thrown back in their seats...then the
drag
chute deployed due to the gaping hole that allowed it to escape...the drag
chute, despite being over 200 knots above its max deployment speed caused
everyone to be thrown forward in their seats...then it shreded which, once
again, threw everyone back in their seats. The entire sequence took less than
5
seconds.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

I spoke to the EWO of that BUFF at the Whidbey air show in 92 or 93 and
showed him around the back seat of the Prowler (crappy view but much
better than his!) He was pretty darn sure that the HARM that hit them
came from their own F-4G SEAD protection. I obviously won't go into the
parametric data of the intended shot target and it's likeness to the
BUFF tail radar but having looked at both the target radar and the
BUFFs I can easily see it happening if you didn't have an o-scope or
raw audio to differentiate. He backed that up with after action reports
from that night and it looks like that Weasel was the only place it
could have come from.
Pugs