... CENTCOM issued official statement but, but ...
Kuwaiti air defenses shot down three American F-15E fighter jets in “an apparent friendly fire incident” early on Monday, US Central Command has stated. The Gulf country hosts a major US airbase from which Washington has been launching warplanes since the beginning of its massive unprovoked joint attack on Iran, together with Israeli forces. The attacks, which have killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as over a hundred schoolgirls in a strike on a single building in the south of the country, have provoked a massive response across the Gulf region. “During active combat – that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones – the US Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses,” CENTCOM wrote in a press release on Monday. “All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered, and are in stable condition. Kuwait has acknowledged this incident.”
The question is--Kuwait's AD operates 15 MIM-104 Patriots (8 of PAC3 variety)--where was IFF (Interrogation Friend Foe) and what is the REAL target selectivity in these Patriots. Three combat aircraft by "friendly fire" in less than 12 hours? Seriously? Something doesn't add up--I may allow for 1-2, but 3. The new MIM (wink, wink), I mean mem, is born, no--not Patriot PAC3, this one is now long a laughing stock--but Kuwait's Air Defense.
Now, for the "military planners" like BiBi and Trump--here is what you achieved:
If you listen to Donald Trump’s public words, he is making wild claims about US military successes in killing Iranians. However, there are new reports that suggest Trump is panicked and searching for a way to declare victory and exit the war. Donald Trump asked Italy to mediate or serve as a conduit for proposing an immediate ceasefire with Iran, following the recent US-Israeli military strikes on Iranian targets
So, as Russian genius has written (granted, Donnie doesn't read books), but then again, Tolstoy wrote about Napoleon, Donnie is a showman and NYC real estate shyster:
In former battles he had only considered the possibilities of success, but now innumerable unlucky chances presented themselves, and he expected them all. Yes, it was like a dream in which a man fancies that a ruffian is coming to attack him, and raises his arm to strike that ruffian a terrible blow which he knows should annihilate him, but then feels that his arm drops powerless and limp like a rag, and the horror of unavoidable destruction seizes him in his helplessness"
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