[Doohickey]

That's a good question. IFF was a requisite for any aircraft, ship or submarine to take part in any action. No IFF, no mission. Period.

[JRandomFreeper]

Whose day-code do you use? Navy? for returning to the fleet? Army? for avoiding Patriots? AF? for avoiding air-to-air? Army and AF do a fair job of joint ops, but there is room for much improvement. Did the Navy AC fall under the air boss? Was there an ATO?

Balancing central command and local control leaves room for a margin of fatal error, but everthing that can be done, should be.

Joint Doctrine is the answer.

Prayers, BTW, for the family. But I don't want any family to suffer from a fratricide loss again.

/john

[ProudVet77]

You're right, but that is the way it is supposed to work. Served on a ship that was in contact with Soviet Naval aircraft for about 2 weeks, and our IFF was down the whole time. The CO did not want to report this little fact to the Commodore. Eventually he got found out when we were calling our A4s bogies. (The skipper eventually went on to earn 4 stars.)