Tornado shoot-down lesson: don't 'over-rely' on machines

Missile system operators "must never allow themselves to become overly reliant" on their machines, investigators of an Iraq War friendly fire incident warn. While a prime cause of an American Patriot missile's downing of a British jet "was a failure in the aircraft's Interrogation Friend or Foe (IFF...

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