Reports indicate that several Iranian drones had entered Kuwaiti airspace shortly before the incident. When Kuwaiti forces spotted several fighter jets above, they misidentified them as hostile. On March 2, the U.S. Central Command reported that Kuwaiti air defense systems erroneously downed three U.S. fighters. The aircraft crashed, but all six crew members managed to eject safely, reported by tass.ru.
WSJ: Kuwaiti F/A-18 accidentally shoots down three U.S. fighter jets
Three U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets were shot down on March 1 by missiles mistakenly fired by the crew of a Kuwaiti F/A-18 aircraft, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal.
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