Originally Posted by
Tombstone
The Serbians were victims of their own initiative in that they listened in to many of our freqs and often reacted to the 'Magnum Magnum' calls very quickly indeed.
Having worked this out, I am aware of a few trips where the WW mates caled 'Magnum' without pulling the trigger & watched a radar nearby react accordingly.
Cheap as chips!
Tombstone
As E3D WC in Balkans from Summer 95 till we extracted ourselves in 2000 I witnessed a number of Magnum calls with no shots in fact if the WW or Harm truck F18's weren't in a position to cover the E3D crews used to call Magnum and the Serbs shut down.
2 Other stories from the Balkans and 1 from the GW2
1st Balkans, was bad from WW tasking point as some Gr4's from RAFG spent some serious time defensive to a BUFF broadband jamming the entire theatre of the particular Serb radar. Left the GR4 mates with no tanks, bombs, chaff and V low/slow. So much so they actually considered going to Rumania. All because the WW coverage was allocated to the US only raid.
2nd Balkans good as a 4 ship of WW F16s on station sausage side of the fence react to E3D pick up switch from HARM to AMRAAM. Result 1 Mig29 kill.
GW2
Late tasking from KMARTto Western Dessert E3. Get some assets and take out a SA3 TTR protected by an SA6 battery. GR7 mate gets the fag packet brief and WW F16 pair come over from east of Bagdad. Pass the tasking, arrange a TOT window to cover, all WW wants to know is, are they cleared PET shots?
Result no SA3 seen but SA6's don't even think about comming on air. GR7 mates 1 pass haul deriere.
Trap One