http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19492408
Putting to one side the immense sadness this news article engenders, I have a question that is heavily biased by what hits the media. Why does it nearly always seem to be American Apache pilots that I see reports of being involved in extended blue-on-blue engagements (emphasis on the "seem")?
I saw the same thing during the Gulf war, where it was even less understandable as the Apache crews were shooting up their own men. Even I, as a English civilian, recognised, through the same gun camera imagery the crews were using, that they were attacking American troops and Bradley APC's.
Is it a failure in training? In crew quality? Or is there a flaw in the design of the Apache's information systems? I suspect a mix of all three with the major emphasis on the latter as I have read reports previously that Apache crews were complaining of data overload - they were being fed so much data that they could not process it into useful information and became less decisive and responsive as a result.
Do we have any members here who have an insight into this?
Putting to one side the immense sadness this news article engenders, I have a question that is heavily biased by what hits the media. Why does it nearly always seem to be American Apache pilots that I see reports of being involved in extended blue-on-blue engagements (emphasis on the "seem")?
I saw the same thing during the Gulf war, where it was even less understandable as the Apache crews were shooting up their own men. Even I, as a English civilian, recognised, through the same gun camera imagery the crews were using, that they were attacking American troops and Bradley APC's.
Is it a failure in training? In crew quality? Or is there a flaw in the design of the Apache's information systems? I suspect a mix of all three with the major emphasis on the latter as I have read reports previously that Apache crews were complaining of data overload - they were being fed so much data that they could not process it into useful information and became less decisive and responsive as a result.
Do we have any members here who have an insight into this?
