Timeline for How did the USS Vincennes misidentify an Airbus aircraft?
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| Jan 13, 2020 at 18:28 | comment | added | TomMcW | On point 1, I read somewhere (got no source, though) that the radar operator had put the cursor over the plane on his screen before it left the airport, which assigned it a mixed civilian/military mode on IFF. After it took off a fighter taxied to the runway and since the cursor on the radar was still over the airport the readout changed to the military IFF squawk from it. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Your last paragraph is dead wrong. It would be a bit closer to correct to observe "don't promote such guys, filter them out" and "improve command training" - it took roughly 20 years to get to even be eligible to a the captain of an Aegis cruiser, to include a previous command tour on a smaller combatant. The rest of your answer is a good review of how that scenario is presented in officer training modules. You also missed the critical factor: there was no Visual Identification, and since the Cruiser was not operating with a battlegroup, no airbore aircraft to send that way to get a VID. | |
| Jan 12, 2020 at 12:57 | history | edited | user14897 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
for readability, moved solutions under each point
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| Jan 11, 2020 at 20:12 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |