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2018-02-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IAF Pilot error determined as cause of fighter jet crash
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-25 14:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 ...That one doesn't make a lot of sense. The only thing I can think of that would go along with that was if the PIC got himself behind the curve and didn't fire countermeasures in time.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-02-25 17:44||   2018-02-25 17:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Had to be.
Couldn't have been that the rocket hit the aircraft.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-25 17:44||   2018-02-25 17:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "an operational mistake" is what it's called when you get too far down in the enemy's 'threat fan'.
A tactical mistake is when you don't remember to find out where the threat fan is.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-02-25 18:50||   2018-02-25 18:50|| Front Page Top

#4 They got to thinking they were flying a dump truck rather than a fighter bomber over defended air space. Something similar happened with the F-117A shot down over Yugoslavia.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-02-25 20:13||   2018-02-25 20:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow, you a Nighthawk ZF?
Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-25 20:57||   2018-02-25 20:57|| Front Page Top

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