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German warship accidentally shoots US drone... but both missiles miss the target (www.bild.de)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Human error most likely, flight and radar controllers are humans too, but they will almost certainly be demoted or punished severely for this mistake. Reasonably so, could you imagine the international PR disaster it would be if this was a manned US plane?

Not that I would mind hehe

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I agree, it does show how a lot of things aren't well ironed out in my opinion. I forget who exactly, but I recall one of US ex military people was talking about this a while back. He said that NATO stopped doing serious exercises in the 90s, and those are essential to having smooth operations. That's how you shake out supply chain issues, communication problems, etc.