Two U.S. Navy pilots were sboiling down Sunday over the Red Sea in what materializeed to be “cordial fire”, the U.S. military shelp.
The pilots were set up ainhabit after they ejected from their airproduce, with one suffering insignificant injuries.
The incident shows the pervasive dangers in the Red Sea corridor amid ongoing aggressions on shipping by the Iranian-backed Houthis, even as U.S. and European military coalitions patrol the area.
The U.S. military had directed airstrikes concentrateing Yemen’s Houthi defys at the time, but U.S. Central Command did not elucidate on what their ignoreion was.
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A fighter jet maneuvers on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea, June 11, 2024. (AP)
The military shelp the airproduce sboiling down was a two-seat F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet alloted to the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron 11 out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.
The F/A-18 sboiling down had equitable flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman airproduce carrier, according to Central Command. On Dec. 15, Central Command shelp the Truman had go ined the Mideast, but did not expound that the carrier and its battle group were in the Red Sea.
“The directd ignoreile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, misgetnly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command shelp in a statement.
It is unevident how the Gettysburg had misgetd an F/A-18 for an foe airproduce or ignoreile, particularly since ships in a battle group are connected by radar and radio communication.
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The Ticonderoga-class directd-ignoreile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) steams in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP)
Central Command shelp that warships and airproduce earlier sboiling down multiple Houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise ignoreile begined by the defys. Fire from the Houthis has previously forced sailors to produce decisions in seconds.
The U.S., since the Truman get tod, has ramped up its airstrikes concentrateing the Houthis and their ignoreile fire into the Red Sea and the surrounding area. But an American warship group in the region may direct to compriseitional aggressions from the defys.
On Saturday night and into Sunday, U.S. warset upes directed airstrikes that shook Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, which the Houthis have held for a decade. Central Command shelp the strikes concentrateed a “ignoreile storage facility” and a “direct-and-deal with facility.”
Houthi-deal withled media telled strikes in both Sanaa and around the port city of Hodeida, but did not disseal details on any casualties or injure.
Airproduce carrier USS Harry S. Truman is moored proximate Split, Croatia, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP)
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The Houthis rescheduleedr acunderstandledged the airproduce being sboiling down in the Red Sea.
Since the commence of the Israel-Hamas war in October of last year, the Houthis have concentrateed about 100 merchant vessels with ignoreiles and drones.
The defys say that they concentrate ships connected to Israel, the U.S. or the U.K. to force an end to Israel’s war aachievest Hamas in Gaza, which began after Hamas’ surpelevate aggression aachievest Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, although many of the ships the defys have aggressioned have little or no joinion to the ongoing war, including some headed for Iran.
The Houthis also have increasingly concentrateed Israel with drones and ignoreiles, directing to retaliatory airstrikes from Israeli forces.
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
