Algorithimic Fratricide: When Artificial Intelligence Bias Becomes a Battlefield Liability

March 23, 2003: A Tornado crew returned from a strike mission over Iraq and never made it home. A Patriot battery – trusted, automated, validated – engaged a friendly aircraft. Flight Lieutenants Kevin Barry Main and David Rhys Williams died. The inquiry found faults in identification logic, procedures, and equipment.

Two decades later, the mechanics are different, but the lesson is the same. What once was an engineering failure can now be encoded in training data and model weights: a misclassification...