It didn’t actually target friendlies. Apparently the two incidents with Patriot in 2003 were with a Tornado and F18 that didn’t have IFF enabled. video from an instructor for air defense artillery, dude explains Patriot issues well.
Not sure what the deal was on that. The Patriot doesn’t broadcast that it’s targeting a plane, the F16 shouldn’t have seen anything more than “there’s a radar out there looking” before the pilot shot. No one indicated that the Patriot battery was actually targeting the F16 for a kill.
My understanding is that from those three incidents they changed the SOP for target engagement as well as offering advanced schooling for the senior individuals.
It didn’t actually target friendlies. Apparently the two incidents with Patriot in 2003 were with a Tornado and F18 that didn’t have IFF enabled. video from an instructor for air defense artillery, dude explains Patriot issues well.
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He comments on that, it was an F16 pilot.
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Not sure what the deal was on that. The Patriot doesn’t broadcast that it’s targeting a plane, the F16 shouldn’t have seen anything more than “there’s a radar out there looking” before the pilot shot. No one indicated that the Patriot battery was actually targeting the F16 for a kill.
My understanding is that from those three incidents they changed the SOP for target engagement as well as offering advanced schooling for the senior individuals.
lol, thought I’d reply here because it’s kind of terrifying… After this discussion, the dude who did the video on Patriot and the two fratricide events did an updated video and he actually goes through the article you linked, point by point.