Salute!
Love those stories from the Mog.
I never flew real low in combat or even the other coupla thousand of hours back home. Maybe 100 feet, but I liked about 200 and it worked well in real life and one particular time at Red Flag when being tracked by a SA-6 and the video was used by the staff at the mission debrief.
Unlike Mog's experience with Argie gunners way south, the Vee up North were the most experienced AAA folks in the world. Especially trying to nail we Yankee Air Pirates. They had 7 years of practice before we ended that debacle. I only saw the supreme expression of their integrated AAA and SAM deal a few times in December of 1972. I was impressed.
The Brits and the folks they trained always had a easy time flying low when I flew with them. That includes a foreign group or two. But lowest I ever saw was a single Cunnuck in an F-5E evading outta the tgt at Red Flag. We were up at 200 or so feet but our doppler 'dar grabbed him a mile or two ahead and he was low! Flying that low precludes a good check six scan or other things, but ...... So we calmly joined about a thousand feet or so each side and escorted him out. He was so low that he was weaving a bit left and right to avoid the tall cactii. When he finally realized we were there and friendly he waggled and pressed on a bit higher.
Lowest I ever got was as a stoopid nugget in a VooDoo. Setting up for a buzz job on the Gulf Coast and got down where the airflow actually tried to lift the nose. That was a long plane, so we were maybe 30 or 40 feet and 400 kt . Never did that again after thinking about it. Also had "advice" from my RIO behind me.
Good stuff.
Gums sends....