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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I don’t buy it. They’re flying American jets and they don’t have IFF?

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    They do. But if the US doesn't communicate, like they didn't here, then that information won't be accurate.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Does it though? This isn't even approaching being out of the ordinary for this administration.

    Everything they do is implemented in the most incompetent fashion, because everyone running this now has no relevant experience for what they're supposed to be running. They all come through the fascism media news machine and Trump puts them in charge of something as a reward for being a yes man.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, but this would require them telling all the competent people flying jets specifically to be incompetent.

    So yeah I buy it

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    The people flying the jets aren't handling the logistics of telling Kuwait they're going to be in the airspace.

    And those pilots are going to assume that their logistics infrastructure did the bare minimum and that they don't need to worry about Kuwaiti air defense because they're on the same side and IFF should identify them correctly.

    Well, they would have assumed that previously, they might not anymore.

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