Patriot Missiles Down RAF plane

[HBox]

CNN, Fox, and MSNBC is reporting that a missing RAF aircraft may have been downed mistakenly by a Patriot missile battery. This is a bad end to a bad day, and if anybody is even thinking about making joke about it, shame on you.

[reeshy]

These things happen in wartime-they are actually figured into projected casuality estimates prior to going into battle.

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[Fallon]

Fox said the plane was supposed to send a signal to the missle saying it was a friendly, but it didn't for some reason.

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[Death Metal Moe]

Very sad. Both sides of this argument can agree on that. I hope it's the last friendly fire casualty.

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[A.J.]

Fox said the plane was supposed to send a signal to the missle saying it was a friendly, but it didn't for some reason.


Sounds like the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) failed.

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[curtoid]

Last January a British veteran of the first Gulf War expressed concern regarding
American "friendly fire" -

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/06/1041566358550.html

Of the 269 Americans killed during the first war, 121 were of a result of "nonhostile
actions," as they like to put it.

[KOP]

[Knowledged_one]

Or the interrogator signal was malfunctioning on the A/C as well or possibly the missiles or one of the ground stations

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[high fly]

In soccer I believe this is called an "own goal".

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