Two naval aviators safely ejected from their F/A-18 Super Hornet when the aircraft was shot down over the Red Sea in a friendly fire accident by guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg Saturday. “Both pilots were safely recovered. Initial assessments indicate that one of the crew members sustained minor injuries,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. “This incident was not the result of hostile fire, and a full investigation is underway.”
Someone’s going to get some enhanced training, someone’s going to get transferred, and someone will probably get a promotion for all the training and transferring he’s facilitating. And the paperwork, oh, the paperwork…
I’ve never heard of a “Houthi rebel air force” ever reported; much less that the US had declared a war with them. I guess you need it to be called “a war” so that RoE changes to where we can shoot first?
Call it whatever fits your viewpoint, but it’s an ongoing multi-nation op attempting to protect international shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis are using missiles & suicide drones fired from adjacent Yemen targeting civilian shipping as well as the (mostly USA & Brit) ships which have been shooting them down - yes, without warning, I am sure. So far, the Houthis have sunk two civilian cargo ships, damaged a number of others & killed and injured crew members. While this might not sound like much, the disruption to Suez Canal shipping caused by the ongoing threat has been significant.