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"I have a question for you, Benaj Al-Kuwait. How can you say Kuwait is a friend of the USA when they shot down THREE of our Jets?"

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor

Or

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." - Grey's Law

These are ragheads, dude.

It was a mostly peaceful shootdown.

All USS Liberty theorists must now spend the next 60 years analyzing why the Kuwaitis shot down US F-15s

Fucking monkeys!

I'll bet he wished he were back in grammar school getting noogies and royal lifts instead of this. At least with DEI, they could have blamed it on the empowered lesbian.

To be fair, IFF is far from being bulletproof and there are many systems which don't even have it. The monkey factor just makes everything worse.

TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

All USS Liberty theorists must now spend the next 60 years analyzing why the Kuwaitis shot down US F-15s

Even for a rabidly pro-Israel partisan that is quite a stretch. In the case of the Kuwaitis, that was a low level command anti-aircraft defense that accidently shot down friendly planes in a situation where Iran was mass attacking with drones and warplanes. With the USS Liberty, that was high level air and sea coordinated attack that lasted several hours and included intense jamming and prior flyovers of the ship.

BigSky says

Even for a rabidly pro-Israel partisan that is quite a stretch. In the case of the Kuwaitis, that was a low level command anti-aircraft defense that accidently shot down friendly planes in a situation where Iran was mass attacking with drones and warplanes. With the USS Liberty, that was high level air and sea coordinated attack that lasted several hours and included intense jamming and prior flyovers of the ship.

BigSky says

With the USS Liberty, that was high level air and sea coordinated attack that lasted several hours and included intense jamming and prior flyovers of the ship.

What was the identification tech like in export-grade Mirages in 1967?

Vastly inferior to what was available in the 1980s, much less the 21st Century.

"It can't possibly be error"

TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

That image is an obvious fake. And it is likely they were shot down by air-to-air missiles, not Patriot ground-based systems.