Operation Provide Comfort¶
United States General Accounting Office. (1994). Operation Provide Comfort: Review of Air Force Investigation of Black Hawk Fratricide Incident.
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- Blue-on-Blue Risk
- During Operation Provide Comfort, two US Air Force F-15C fighters patrolling the no-fly zone interrogated two US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters electronically without obtaining a consistent friendly response, misidentified them on a single visual pass as Iraqi Mi-24 Hinds, and shot them down, killing all 26 aboard
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- During Operation Provide Comfort, two US Air Force F-15C fighters patrolling the no-fly zone interrogated two US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters electronically without obtaining a consistent friendly response, misidentified them on a single visual pass as Iraqi Mi-24 Hinds, and shot them down, killing all 26 aboard
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