Friendly fire
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Friendly fire incidents are caused by miscommunication among military forces on the same side. The two most common types stem from errors of targeting and errors of identification.
- "Fratricide is the employment of friendly weapons and munitions with the intent to kill the enemy or destroy his equipment, or facilities, which result in unforeseen and unintentional death or injury to friendly personnel." [1]
In the confusion of battle, it is easy to shoot one's own comrades in arms, accidentally. [2]
Examples of victims of friendly fire include:
References
- ↑ (Eliminating Fratricide In Ground Combat), Defense Update
- ↑ It's this combination of increasingly lethal firepower, fluid battlefields, complex communications, and the notorious "fog of war" that can add up to friendly fire losses. (Brad Knickerbocker), The Christian Science Monitor