US Army shoots down its own F-18 jet during Strike on Yemen

US Army (CENTCOM) confirmed during the early hours of 21 December that one of its warships in the Red Sea “mistakenly” shot down an F/A-18 jet that took part in the latest US-UK Strike on Yemen.

“The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18, which was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

Both pilots were reportedly recovered alive.

CENTCOM said the attacks targeted “a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis,” as well as “multiple Houthi one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles (OWA UAV) and an anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) over the Red Sea.”