I don't mean to sound dim, but I don't understand the term friendly fire. If it was friendly, then why would they be shooting in the first place. What does it actually mean?
2007-02-05 20:34:21 · 17 answers · asked by chelle0980 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Friendly fire is firing from your own side...your own country's army but sometimes they make a mistake and do not recognise the soldiers and accidently kill or maime them. They may go into an area that is occupied by the enemy and do not know that they have their own soldiers there and cannot see them to recognise them and accidentally shoot or bomb them. Fire is never friendly no matter what they say.
2007-02-05 20:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by beyond paradise 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Shooting between units of the same side due to problems in communication, visibility, combat fatigue, or in rare cases, plain insanity. Anyone who has been in real combat can tell you how trigger happy you can get when the adrenalin starts pumping. There are a lot of reported cases in recent wars and sometimes the only casualities in initial combat operations(i.e., invasion and capture) of the US Armed forces are due to friendly fire. US Armed forces enforce a standing doctrine of not attacking an enemy from the rear to avoid friendly fire incidents.
2007-02-05 21:03:48 · answer #2 · answered by Gunslinger 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friendly fire, or, blue on blue, is when two or more friendly or allied units engage in combat believing each other to be the enemy. For a better description read any Falklands War novels, as there were many incidents every day.
2007-02-07 04:42:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friendly fire is when members on your side fire at you because they think you are on the opposing side. An example would be American soldiers,while in a war zone ie Iraq, inside a building and other Americans in tanks, Air crafts or outside the building start to fire at the building because they believe the enemy is inside.
2007-02-05 21:25:36 · answer #4 · answered by CLEO J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friendly Fire
Fire burning in a place where it was intended to burn, although damages may result. In a military conflict, the discharge of weapons against one's own troops.
A fire burning in a fireplace is regarded as a friendly fire, in spite of the fact that extensive smoke damage might result therefrom. Ordinarily, when an individual purchases fire insurance, the coverage does not extend to damages resulting from a friendly fire but only to loss resulting from an uncontrollable hostile fire.
2007-02-05 21:11:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Friendly, this is Friendly2, Cease Fire! Cease Fire I repeat Cease Fire! Over! Friendly, Friendly 2, requesting air support at grid intersection abc. Over! hehe...
2007-02-05 21:48:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the shooting comes from a gun which is owned by your own or allied side ie from one of your friends.The term was coined by the USA to try to make their mistakes and over zealous trigger happy actions more media friendly."Trigger happy US Marine kills ten Brits" becomes "Ten Brits hit by friendly fire"and the world says "Oh,how unfortunate"
2007-02-05 22:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not as friendly as it sounds. It means that you are being shot at by your own side.
2007-02-05 20:45:34 · answer #8 · answered by AndyPandy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it actually means when armies on the same side accidentally fire on their own people by miscalculation of some kind
2007-02-05 20:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's when stupid American A10 pilots rocket clearly marked British armoured vehicles in clear daylight. This happened in both gulf wars. Half of the Americans who died in Vietnam were killed by their own side.
2007-02-05 20:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by Charles D 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋