*Spanish guitar intensifies

"I'll try spinning. That's a good trick!"

The negligents here may have been the racist and arrogant US administration that did not bother to let the local airspace know there was some upcoming shiz. Kuwait is an ally, so I'm sure they'd be chill.

But Kegseth is the manliest man of all men and manly men don't need no deconfliction. Fucking idiots.

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

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

Strains credulity

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.

Do you mean to say it's non-credible? Here of all places. Smh

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

So yeah I buy it

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.

It's true. We unironically can't be sure it was all the feckless third world ally making feckless third world military things happen, this time.

I always get a wave of nostalgia to when I was playing AC4&5 when I was like, 8 and 11ish? when I see stuff like this. One of my first tastes of "was is really fucking bad and also warplanes are cool as fuck"