A confusion between the enemy drone and one’s own who was returning to base. That could be the reason why US air defenses failed to prevent the attack that this Sunday resulted in the death of three of his soldiers in Jordan.

According to ‘The New York Times‘, quotes two US officials, the return of a surveillance drone to the US base would have created confusion about whether the drone that was approaching at that moment was an enemy or not, so air defenses were not activated immediately. According to the American newspaper, two other drones that attacked nearby locations were shot down.

Precisely, the United States Department of Defense made public this Monday the names of the three deceased soldiers in the attack the day before and has raised the number of wounded to 40. The deceased are Sergeant William Rivers, 46 years old; specialist Kennedy Sanders, 24 years old; and specialist Breonna Moffett, 23.

The three were part of the 718th Engineer Company, an Army reserve unit based in Fort Moore, Georgia, as detailed by the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary, Sabrina Singh. As for the woundedSingh has explained that “the number will continue to fluctuate” due to the influence of so-called “traumatic brain injuries” that cause symptoms to appear later. “This number may continue to increase,” she warned.

The previous official figure, offered by the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, pointed to 34 wounded in the attack, carried out on the night of Saturday to Sunday against the Tower 22 base, located on the Jordanian side of the border between Jordan and Syria. The attack has been claimed by the group Islamic Resistance of Iraq and Washington considers it the work of militias supported by Iran, for which it has warned that it will respond.