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Navy F18 shot down in Red Sea by our own Cruiser

We shot down a British Tornado in the 2003 Iraq war.

In 1991 Desert Storm A B52 shot at allied aircraft with a tail gun (they removed the tail gun from all B52’s in September if that year funny timing but supposedly technology made them obsolete and there were only 2 times they shot down aircraft in Vietnam so maybe) and while not reported a separate B52 that went (from my base) there was some theory it was hit most likely by friendly Fire but they never recovered the aircraft from the Indian Ocean. Only 3 of 6 survived that one.
 
ouch, great the pilots are OK and not swimming with davey jones,
thats the important item.

but the tempo of TARGETS in the air, makes an OOPS a very real issue
we blew off the bridge of a turkish FFG when i was on saratoga, oops, when she was about 3k yards away, it was gruesome. and we were playing war games....how did a live sea sparrow launch???

sad but it does happen

those cruisers are awesome in detection , classification and prosecution of threats
my guess is the folks in combat were in very high octane alert for hours on end, combined with the stress of missiles and drones already being shot at navy ships and of course numbers of people or lack of trained people to man the screens and the fire control officer?? he or she gives final go or no go. and usually the cruisers are the aircraft control point, not the carrier. they have tactical control of the airspace ..lots to manage with 12 or less people on a watch station


the red sea is hornets nests, so many things in the air 24 7, your body gets tired real quick of constant ON GUARD and modified schedules to man the battle stations etc.
i will add, the navy does not take human factors into account in all fields, like it does in flying and nuke folks

so the systems crews could be running on 2 hrs of sleep or be on watch 8 hrs straight, then a few off to eat and then righ back to the seat...brain fog sets in FAST, especially when everything around you is blue, green or red lights

but the aircraft IFF should have told the cruiser he was a friend, but maybe a non friend was very close and the missile chose the lesser of two evils as it was. there will be "tape" so the investigators will be able to put the puzzle together.
missiles do not use the iff transponder info...why? cost , updates, etc
 
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