A US Navy cruiser hit an American F/A-18 fighter jet in the skies over the Red Sea, CBS News reported, citing the United States Armed Forces Central Command.
‘The missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, part of the aircraft carrier strike group USS Harry S. Truman, mistakenly fired on and struck an F/A-18 that was flying from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman,’ CBS News said in the publication.
The F/A-18 fighter jet was shot down in the skies over the Red Sea during a US attack on Yemeni Houthi positions. It is specified that both pilots survived, one of them received minor injuries.
According to the broadcaster, the incident with the downed fighter jet emphasises how dangerous the Red Sea corridor has become.
We will remind, earlier the former adviser to the Minister of Defence in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, retired Colonel Douglas McGregor said that over the past twenty years, aggressive foreign policy has harmed the United States itself.
