All Wild Weasel F-100Fs were eventually modified to fire the AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile.
In a month or less, the National Guard jets would be flying, with a full complement of Shrike missiles tucked under their wings.
En route, secret papers were dumped along with the two remaining Shrike missiles, although one failed to launch.
The Navy soon had the Shrike missile in service and mounted their first offensive strike on a site in October 1965.
He snorted them with a rolled-up five-dollar bill, and something that felt like a Shrike missile went off in his head.
The aircraft carried either twenty-one 1,000 lb bombs internally or two or four Shrike anti-radar missiles externally.
Thorsness located two SAM sites and fired a Shrike missile to attack one, whose radar went off the air.
Of the five Black Buck raids, three were against Stanley Airfield, with the other two anti-radar missions using Shrike anti-radiation missiles.
The Vulcan fired Shrike anti-radar missiles, which went stray when the Argentine radar-operators switched off their devices.
However, the remaining Shrike missile was confiscated.