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Russia shoots down its own Su-35 fighter jet
(defence-blog.com)
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I wonder if something like the Friendly or Foe system being broken or in the wrong setting could cause this. I think there was in incident in the middle east where an RAF Tornado was shot down by British anti-air systems as it couldn't identify the aircraft as friendly.
It didn't actually target friendlies. Apparently the two incidents with Patriot in 2003 were with a Tornado and F18 that didn't have IFF enabled. video from an instructor for air defense artillery, dude explains Patriot issues well.
He comments on that, it was an F16 pilot.