FLIR should easily identify the vehicles as coalition marked - hell, with the slightest bit of thought they'd be recognized by type. It's not like a Challenger resembles a T72, or a Bradley resembles a BRDM...
Doesn't matter. ALL coalition vehicles, from Challies down to Hummers have Thermal recognition panels (those weird corrugated boxes on the sides and rears of the vehicles) which show up as a square shaped cool spot in Thermal.
Never heard of A-10s with FLIR pods, and I haven't visually ID'd any. Doesn't mean that there aren't any though.
Further, I think its easy to judge the fact that certain vehicles don't look like certain vehicles when you're looking at them on TV or the papers; but up 1000 or more feet, trucking along at 400mph it may not be that easy. I was in the army and there were a few times when I had trouble IDing the vehicles (not because of any inherent lack of ability on my part--I can visually ID just about every armored vehicle in service, even down to sub-models or production batches in certain cases!) but because conditions do not allow easy identification.
Finally, we really can't know what the situation was or what the pilot was thinking at the time of the incident from reading a few lines from a newspaper or from what the British troops on the receiving end of the attack say (whom probably had pretty high emotions right then). That's why I thought that first article sounded so irresposible...
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