I don’t understand this at all. The Navy is engaged in an attack on the Houthis and then the Navy gets the idea that the Houthis have somehow got their hands on an F-18 and are attacking one of our ships, so the ship shoots down the F-18. This just seems ... unlikely.
I would say that it is even odds that the Houthis used either a Russian or Chinese anti-aircraft missile to shoot down the F-18. I can no longer take the claims of our government at face value, they have been lying about everything.