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Does anyone know, or remember, when the last friendly fire incident occurred? My guess is possibly the Vietnam War. I am interested in the historical perspective.


My good HS friend was in the USN aboard the USS Detroit when this incident happened in 1992 where a US Navy ship accidentally fired two live Sea Sparrow missiles at a Turkish warship during NATO exercises:

TCG Muavenet Incident


 
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We almost did that on the USS Ranger during Desert Storm and on an F-18 not attached to out CAG ( ship’s squadrons)

After doing their run, they come out of country fast, low, and radio silent. They look like an in coming missile if there happens to be a ship in their path.

And if they don’t pop up soon enough, BOOM, Phalanx 101 goes on automatic.






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Does anyone know, or remember, when the last friendly fire incident occurred? My guess is possibly the Vietnam War. I am interested in the historical perspective.


Some of your Air Force guys shot the shit out of a clearly-marked British military column in GW1...killing nine soldiers, and then a US Patriot Battery shot down an RAF Tornado, and most recently the ANG bombed a Canadian night exercise in 'stan.

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Does anyone know, or remember, when the last friendly fire incident occurred?

In his book Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War (the first one) Rick Atkinson discusses several friendly fire incidents. Although I just finished rereading the book I didn’t pay close attention to the total number of Allied personnel killed, but I believe it was more than who were killed by the Iraqis. If not that many, certainly a significant number.

Regardless of how/why this incident occurred, though, it could not possibly have been due to the sort of chaotic circumstances of active ground combat.

Then there was ASU and Phoenix Cardinals football player, Pat Tillman, killed by FF in April of 2004. Twenty years ago…


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IFF does not work in OFF mode....


It took me a while to decipher this. LOL.



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Does anyone know, or remember, when the last friendly fire incident occurred? My guess is possibly the Vietnam War. I am interested in the historical perspective.


There were unfortunately many friendly fire incidents during the GWOT. We dropped a bomb on the SF team escorting President Karzai (before he was president), and several other notable examples. USAF F-15s shot down US Army Blackhawks during the Operation Northern Watch years. Many many examples more recent than Vietnam. It's a terrible reality of war.
 
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Believe some A-10 Warthogs strafed Canadians in Afghanistan.
 
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Tarnak Farm ranges, Afghanistan, April 18, 2002.

Two American F-16 pilots One of the pilots, Major Harry Schmidt, drops a 500lb LGB on a group of Canadian paratroopers, killing four and seriously injuring eight others.

Moments after dropping the bomb, Major Schmidt calls over the cockpit radio to his flight leader 'I hope that was the right thing to do, he says. 'Me too' Major Bill Umbach replies.

Needless to say, it wasn't.
 
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Headline 24 Augusr 2007.

In the worst "friendly fire" incident involving British forces in the country, an American F-15 long-range strike aircraft dropped a single 500lb bomb killing the soldiers from 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment.

The investigation will need to determine whether the accident was the result of a communications or technical failure, why an American rather than a British plane was involved, and why such a relatively big bomb was dropped close to British positions on the ground.

The soldiers were part of a 60-man patrol deployed to disrupt Taliban movements north-west of Kajaki, the site of a hydroelectric dam under repair and potentially significant irrigation projects for Helmand province. At about 6.30pm local time on Thursday the patrol was attacked by Taliban fighters and came under heavy gunfire from several directions.

In a statement yesterday the Ministry of Defence said: "During the intense engagement that ensued, close air support was called in from two US F-15 aircraft to repel the enemy. A single bomb was dropped and it is believed the explosion killed all three soldiers who were declared dead at the scene."

The next of kin had been informed, the MoD said. The two injured soldiers, including one critically ill, were evacuated by helicopter to the medical facility at Camp Bastion. Nine soldiers from the battalion have been killed in southern Afghanistan over the past four months.

The latest friendly fire deaths are thought to be the second incident involving British soldiers being killed by Americans in Afghanistan. Eight British military personnel have been killed by US fire in Iraq since the start of the war in 2003.
 
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Gulf War. 26 February 1991: Six British soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and ten members of the attached Company of Queen's Own Highlanders were killed and further three injured after their [clearly marked with flags] Warrior armoured vehicles were hit by Maverick missiles fired by two U.S. A-10 ground attack aircraft.

The Iraqis killed three in separate actions.

We're still waiting for the apology.
 
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A few more details:

F/A-18F Was Shot Down By Friendly Fire As Jets Were About To Land On The Carrier

The friendly fire incident also came amid a sustained Houthi drone and missile attack targeting the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group.

Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
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A friendly fire incident in the Red Sea this past weekend that saw a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser down an F/A-18F Super Hornet came as jets were returning to the supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman, TWZ has learned. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group had also been fending off a sustained Houthi drone and missile attack leading up to the friendly fire incident. You can read more about what is known about this incident in our earlier reporting here.

“After successfully returning from its initial mission, an F/A-18F launched again to provide air defense support from OWAs and ASCMs that were inbound to the force,” a U.S. official told us. “They were shot down while recovery of remaining aircraft was underway.”

The F/A-18F was officially downed early on December 22 local time by a missile from the Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Gettysburg. Aircraft from the Harry S. Truman‘s air wing had also struck Houthi targets in Yemen on the night of December 21-22...

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https://www.twz.com/air/f-a-18...-land-on-the-carrier
 
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