US Central Command (CENTCOM) acknowledged in a 22 December statement the investigation into the shoot-down of an F/A-18 over ...

Incidents in the Red Sea, Kazakhstan and New Jersey all highlight the problem of dealing with hostile drones in shared ...

On December 22, 2024, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet operating over the Red Sea was mistakenly shot down by the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg in a friendly fire incident. Both pilots ejected ...

A U.S. Navy missile cruiser, USS Gettysburg, mistakenly targeted two F/A-18 Super Hornets during airstrikes against Yemen’s ...

A retired vice admiral offers perspective after Navy jet mistakenly shot down by Navy destroyer, military says ...

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet was shot down in a friendly fire incident, but a previously unreported second jet narrowly avoided a similar fate.

On Sunday morning Arabian Standard Time, a U.S. Navy ship mistakenly fired on a U.S. fighter jet in the Red Sea. Reports said ...

The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident ...

The US nearly shot down a second Navy fighter jet over the Red Sea on Saturday — missing it by just 100 feet — in a friendly ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down in a "friendly fire" incident over the Red Sea – took evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired ...

The Navy decommissioned four of its upgraded Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers before even deploying.

Right-wing commentators have tied the incident to broader concerns about alleged incompetence in the U.S. military.