What level of competence is needed? Imagine these clowns in WW2.
(www.theguardian.com)
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Their was lots of friendly fire in ww2.
I'm sure there was given the amount of aircraft in the skies during battles but we have some pretty advanced tech these days to identify aircraft.
We no longer have to rely on stripes painted on planes to identify them.
We are light years ahead of that now
Yes i know very well. It's still war,shit happens and it happened a lot in ww2. Main thing here,is that no one was killed.
The USS Long Beach shot down an Iranian Airbus on a scheduled flight path in the 80's used modern tech of the time, it can still happen despite all the checks and interlocks used.
Actually it was the USS Vincennes that shot down the airliner.
True, but the CIWS system, which includes the Sea Sparrow (not-so-affectionately called the Sea Chicken as a lot of those missiles either "hang fire" and fail to launch, or they fail to ignite the solid rocket propellant on firing and just get ejected off the launcher into the drink), has IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) capabilities which have to be manually overridden in order to shoot down a US/Ally aircraft. So, someone "screwed the pooch" bigly in this situation.