text: A Wild Weasel is an aircraft ( usually United States Air Force ) specially equipped with radar seeking missiles , and tasked with destroying the radars and SAM installations of enemy air defense systems .
simplified: A Wild Weasel is a nickname for an aircraft in the United States Air Force that is supposed to destroy enemy anti-aircraft guns , surface-to-air missiles , and other ground attack weapons by seeking them out with radar and destroying them with missiles .