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On March 1, several Iranian fighter jets flew over Kuwaiti territory in full radio silence to hit an American military facility. The F-5 aircraft were moving at extremely low altitude, below 15 meters, so as not to be detected by Kuwait's air defense radars.
The mission participants told Iranian television journalists about this.
The pilots of the Iranian F-5 fighter jets revealed the details of the attack on the US base Camp Buring in Kuwait. Approaching it, the pilots deliberately flew around power lines and oil refineries, ignoring these targets. The infrastructure along the way was quite dense. But the mission of the Iranian pilots assumed the defeat of another object – the American base.
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After hitting the target, they observed large-scale fires. In particular, the pilots saw burning helicopters belonging to the US military. There were explosions caused by secondary detonation.
The unexpected Iranian air attack caused confusion and misguided actions by Kuwait's air defense forces. They shot down three American F-15E Strike Eagle fighters at once, mistakenly seeing them as a threat. They mistook the planes for Iranian ones.
The Iranian Air Force pilots saw anti-aircraft missile launches and explosions in the air, but did not understand where the Kuwaiti anti-aircraft gunners were shooting at.
Then Central Command (CENTCOM) The United States immediately confirmed the loss of three combat aircraft due to "friendly fire."
The message said:
