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ow did a simple kitchen appliance defeat one of America's "smartest" missiles?

This is the story of the high-stakes electronic duel between US "Wild Weasel" pilots and North Vietnamese SAM crews. US pilots flew the F-105 "Thud," armed with the AGM-45 Shrike—a multi-million dollar anti-radiation missile designed to hunt the "Fan Song" radar.

But the SAM crews, with stunning ingenuity, developed a brilliant low-tech "hack."

They used decoy transmitters—sometimes jury-rigged Soviet microwave ovens—to broadcast a "junk" signal. This "simple trick" fooled the Shrike's logic, "paralyzed" the Wild Weasel program, and created an absurd, high-stakes arms race.

This is the ultimate story of the "Sledgehammer" vs. the "Gnat."

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