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.
I’ve read that they often did - to the point that one US pilot took out a patriot sensor array with a HARM.
He comments on that, it was an F16 pilot.
Which is at least incident number 3! Did that pilot not have IFF engaged, either?
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.