Two US Navy pilots jettisoned safely into the Red Sea after their F/A-18 fighter jets were mistakenly shot down early Sunday in what military officials are calling a “friendly fire incident.”
One of the pilots has minor injuries, according to a news release from US Central Command.
The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired and hit the aircraft flying from the USS Harry S. Truman, according to the news release.
USS Gettysburg
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The military said a full investigation is underway.
It has been the US Army patrolling the region for more than a year Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after the start of the Israel-Hamas war to counter the ongoing attacks.
Hours earlier, the military said US forces carried out precision airstrikes on a missile storage facility and a command and control facility used by the Houthis and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle and anti-ship cruise missile.
The operation involved the US Air Force and the US Army and included F/A-18 aircraft.
