"System Failure Is Blamed In U.S. Downing Of British Jet"

"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"Drewe Manton" wrote in message
Nope, feel free to google it (though I doubt you have the desire to do
so, I certainly don't!) but my stance from day one has been that it was
a
fog of war tragedy. Although I will admit to a wry smile when a couple
of
days later an F-16CJ fired on a Patriot radar system (I think I'm right
in saying no-one was hurt in that incident, do you remember anything?).

IIRC the radar got trashed, but no injuries to personnel. ISTR that
incident
*was* a case of "RoboPatriot" screwing up...

Actually it's a case of poor signal identification on the part of the CJ.
That's what you get when you put cheap EW pods on aircraft and expect them
to identify radar signals. I seriously doubt a F-4G crew would have made the
same mistake.