In 1994, two US Air force F-15 fighters shot down two friendly US Army Black Hawk helicopters. This event shouldn’t have been possible: there were experts, radio communications, radar, AWACS and more. However, this isn’t a tragedy due to human error or a lack of safeguards, it happened in spite of the safeguards. This episode… Continue reading When Success Leads to Disaster: Practical Drift & the 1994 Black Hawk Friendly Fire Shootdown