{"id":379133,"date":"2026-03-03T01:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilots-safe-friendly-fire-f15-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:07:59","slug":"pilots-safe-after-friendly-fire-downs-3-us-f-15es-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=379133","title":{"rendered":"Pilots Safe After Friendly Fire Downs 3 US F-15Es In Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Central Command has confirmed that three <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3540410\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas<\/a><\/span> F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets were downed earlier today in a friendly fire incident in Kuwait. American forces had been carrying out an Operation known as &#8216;Epic Fury&#8217; amid escalating regional geopolitical tensions over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into the incident has been launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3738,1695,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-kuwait","category-middle-east","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379134,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379133\/revisions\/379134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}