{"id":102754,"date":"2026-03-02T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=102754"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:58:20","slug":"kuwait-defense-system-shot-down-us-f-15-jets-in-friendly-fire-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/kuwait-defense-system-shot-down-us-f-15-jets-in-friendly-fire-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Defense System Shot Down US F-15 Jets in Friendly Fire Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"452\"><strong data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"395\">Kuwait Defense System Shot Down US F-15 Jets<\/strong> in a friendly fire incident confirmed by US officials.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"634\">The incident happened near <strong data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"522\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ali Al Salem Air Base<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in Kuwait. Three American F-15 fighter jets were destroyed after entering the range of Kuwait\u2019s defense system.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"780\">The <strong data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"681\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">United States Central Command<\/span><\/span><\/strong> confirmed that the aircraft were hit mistakenly. Officials described the event as \u201cfriendly fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"968\">Kuwait\u2019s Ministry of Defense also confirmed the incident. Authorities said no crew members were killed. All personnel were safely evacuated and shifted to hospital for medical check-ups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1153\">According to officials, investigations are underway. Kuwait is working closely with US authorities to determine how the Kuwait Defense System Shot Down US F-15 Jets during operations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1284\">Reports said one F-15 Eagle had crashed near the air base a day earlier. Security measures in the region have now been tightened.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1432\">Officials have urged the public to avoid spreading rumors. They said only verified information will be shared after the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait Defense System Shot Down US F-15 Jets in a friendly fire incident confirmed by US officials. The incident happened near Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. Three American F-15 fighter jets were destroyed after entering the range of Kuwait\u2019s defense system. The United States Central Command confirmed that the aircraft were hit mistakenly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":102758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[36922,36920,36923,36924,36921,36919,36748,29386],"class_list":["post-102754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ali-al-salem-air-base","tag-f-15-fighter-jets","tag-friendly-fire-incident","tag-iran-war","tag-kuwait-air-defense","tag-kuwait-defense-system-shot-down-us-f-15-jets","tag-kuwait-news","tag-us-central-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102759,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102754\/revisions\/102759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}