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3 F-15s shot down by Kuwait in friendly fire incident, pilots safe, US says

https://lemmy.world/post/43761981

3 F-15s shot down by Kuwait in friendly fire incident, pilots safe, US says - Lemmy.World

This is what happens when your military is lead by whiskey leaks and the fat man.

Mar 2 at 12:34pmWeb
Show threadinclementimmigrantMar 2
So how is this supposed to bring prices down again?
Show threadAbsolutelyNotAVelociraptorMar 2
I don’t know, but how’s the DOW? 
Show threadThePantserMar 2
Down another 500 as of today.
Show threaddan1101Mar 2
Then this country is moving in the wrong direction. Smh. Because of the Dow. /s
Show threadBonifratzMar 2
Dunno about that, but the DoW is alive and well, fulfilling its purpose.
Show threadfloofloofMar 2
Funny how the “peace President” needed a Department of War and a whole lot of war.
Show threadElvith Ma'forMar 2
How else will he eventually stop a war, then? You think he’d be able to stop wars he isn’t even involved in, if he can’t even stop starting them himself?
Show threadinclementimmigrantMar 2
I think n AG Karen said it was over 9000 dollars.
Show threadVoyajerMar 2
Down?
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 2
How much does a fighter jet cost? A thousand dollars?
Show threadClanOfTheOchoMar 2
About the same as a banana
Show threadfloofloofMar 2
I knew grocery prices were bad but this is getting ridiculous.
Show threadHootinNHollerinMar 2
The dollar is no longer the reserve currency. We’re onto Doll Hairs now
Show threadqueermunist she/herMar 2
“”“Friendly fire incident”“”
Show threadIronfist79Mar 2
Let me guess, Claude said to shoot them down.
Show threadOryginMar 2

I think that was a friendly plane

You’re absolutely right, that was indeed a friendly American f-15 plane we shot down. Would you like me to make a note not to shoot friendly planes in the future? ⚡ 💪

Show threadElvith Ma'forMar 2
Heh, amateurs. You do not put such important orders in the prompt or other context that gets constantly compacted (and thus fuzzy). Fix your LLM client.
(Or… Maybe, I don’t know, put some guard rails in cold hard traditional non-vobe-code to begin with?)
Show threadhumanspiralMar 2
This may be Kuwaiti protest against US operations there. Kuwaiti air defense friendly fire is official Pentagon claim, and 3 starts to break the coincidence explanation. While propaganda narratives are that all of the Gulf states are about to go full zionazi against Iran, they generally do not want to get hit more than to eliminate Iran. Abu Dhabi stationed US planes fleeing the region is sign of quiet cooperation with Iran to remove targets on their back.
Show threadtestaccount372920Mar 2
Probably just a mistake, especially likely since Iran also had (or used to have?) F-15s of their own. Still really bad communications wise.
Show threadhumanspiralMar 2
There is zero likelihood of Iran flying F-15s. They were sold F14s in the 1970s. They would have sold them for parts on black market, 100% certainty. I stand by my unofficial narrative.
Show threadgmtomMar 2
I did the calculation and not factoring any fuel, ammo or maintenance, or the missiles that shit them down, each of these planes was worth about 7,500 years of healthcare for a single person