Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day

Scott Purdue has a couple of good videos on the incident https://youtube.com/@flywirescottperdue

A pilot not trained well on visually IDing some of the most common military planes would be quite a training lapse.

"Fighter jet pilot" is a really cool job.

Guess who gets the cool jobs in these countries? Typically not the most highly motivated individuals, but the children of influential people who pull strings to make it happen.

Guess how easy it's to fire those people when they don't pay that much attention during training?

The Kuwaiti air force doesn't use F-15E. The F-15E looks quite similar to the Iranian Mig-29 especially from above. I've got no idea how Kuwaiti fast jet pilots are trained but it's not inconceivable that pilot had never seen an F-15E in the flesh before.

What did the videos originally link to? It just shows "Sorry, this post is no longer available."

> This is the latest video to have emerged from the extraordinary incident earlier this week in which a Kuwaiti Air Force F/A-18 Hornet was responsible for shooting down three U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles.

Why is the US using such dated planes?

Probably testing grok-based targeting system.

Two more kills and that pilot will be an ace!

How much time elapsed between each aircraft being hit?

I know American pilots think that Kuwait is on their side, but is their any evidence that Kuwaiti pilots think they're on America's side?

> Another fighter pilot’s analysis, seen in video below, questions whether the Kuwaiti pilot might even have gone rogue against an ally. That actually seems possible based on the evidence, but it is hard to believe.

I get the concern, but i would remmeber to attribute it to incompetance rather than malice. And from my understanding, there is no shorten of incompetance among gulf arab militaries

My theory is Iran is jamming the link16 iff.

Article explains how quick and easy it is to fire the missiles, with no information to identify friend from foe.

Then it jumps to incredulity that it could happen 3 times.

I don't know why it's so hard to imagine someone pulling a trigger 3 times.