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2003/3/25-26 [Science/Disaster] UID:27844 Activity:high |
3/25 USAF F-16 heroically avenges RAF Tornado http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70146-1085069,00.html \_ The Tornado sucks anyways. \_ It only killed the radar dish. I expect one-shot-one-kill from our top pilots. Send that guy back to target training. |
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www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70146-1085069,00.html The jet fired a high speed anti-radiation missile which damaged the battery's radar before it could launch a missile. The incident occured about 30 miles south of An Najaf while the F16 was on its way to fly a mission near Baghdad. It is the second so-called "friendly fire" incident involving Patriot missiles during the war on Iraq so far. On Sunday a Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 was shot down by a Patriot missile near the Kuwaiti border, killing both men on board. Allied planes should be protected from attack by their own troops by "friend or foe" technology which identifies them as part of Coalition forces to those on the ground. In the 1991 Gulf War more Coalition troops were killed by friendly than hostile fire. |