Two U.S. Navy pilots had been shot down over the Red Sea in an obvious “pleasant hearth” incident, the U.S. army stated Sunday. Both pilots had been recovered alive, with one struggling minor accidents within the incident.
The incident got here because the U.S. army carried out airstrikes concentrating on Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, although the U.S. army’s Central Command didn’t elaborate on what their mission was on the time.
“The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is a 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,” Central Command stated in a press release.
Earlier Saturday, CENTCOM reported that it had carried out precision airstrikes in Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen, in opposition to a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility.
The strikes had been carried out in response to the continued Houthi assaults on U.S. Navy warships and industrial vessels within the Southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
During the operation, CENTCOM forces additionally shot down a number of Houthi assault drones, in addition to an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea, the company stated.
Early Saturday morning, a rocket fired from Yemen struck an space in Tel Aviv, injuring at the least 16 folks. The Houthis issued a press release on Telegram saying that they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a army goal, which they didn’t determine.
