[nostrademons]

Interesting how many of the fixed-wing shootdowns since the Gulf War were shot down by equipment made by the same geopolitical block (either NATO-on-NATO or Soviet-on-Soviet), either in the sense of literal friendly-fire accidents, or two regional combatants both being supplied by the same superpower. Turkish F-16 shot down by Greek Mirage 2000. British Tornado shot down by U.S. Patriot. A-10 shot down by Iraqi Roland. Georgian Hermes-450 shot down by Russian Mig-29. Russian Tu-22 shot down by Georgian Buk-M1. Ukrainian Su-27 shot down by Russian Su-27. Ukrainian Mig-29 shot down by Buk. That's practically all of the combat jets on the list.

[ceejayoz]

That may just be a factor of modern warfare being largely one side with near-absolute air superiority in an area pounding on largely defenseless ground troops.

The first Gulf War saw nearly half of coalition casualties being from friendly fire.