Posted on 12/24/2024 10:05:02 AM PST by McGruff
On the same night a U.S. Navy fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea, a second jet nearly suffered the same fate. An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down – was forced to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS Gettysburg, narrowly missing the second jet by 100 feet while it prepared to land aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, a source with knowledge of the incident tells Fox News.
A Navy official confirmed that a second SM-2 missile was fired from USS Gettysburg, adding that the Navy is investigating whether that missile was targeting the second jet.
The Navy is also looking into whether the USS Gettysburg switched off the guidance system on the second missile. The near shoot-down of a second U.S. Navy jet has not been previously reported.
The "friendly fire" incident took place days after the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Red Sea. The Dec. 21 strikes against the Houthis were the first for the strike group since arriving off the coast of Yemen.
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I guess their IFF wasn’t working.
I get the impression an embarrassing event (whatever the truth) is being managed for public consumption.
Is this something that would normally not be released to public and dealt with (or not?) privately by the Navy? And it was only released partially because they felt forced to?
I wonder if a Russian sub is jamming it somehow.
My first thought as well. Or, working fine, wrong crypto.
Has happened before......
Makes one wonder how reliable the missles are if the’re incapable of taking down landing air planes.
If two missiles were wrongly fired then that is about $5 million in missiles alone.
What the Sam Hill is going on?
Second such ‘accident’ in one week!!
STOP any such exercises for a few months.
Time to retrain everyone, including the instructors.
and we are worried about an enemy?
That fire is not all that friendly.
Sounds like some of those benevolent mongrels swarming across our southern borders have made it into the military. If they’re murdering and raping our women and children, then shooting down our jets wouldn’t be any big thing.
“Friendly fire” my Obama.
You mean the whole story isn't out yet?
IFF might have been turned off, it might have malfunctioned, the ship’s IFF may have malfunctioned. There should be an E-2 AWACS in the air, I am sort of surprised that the Air Boss in the E-2 wasn’t running the show.
Samesies.
Navy Cruiser Shot Down Super Hornet During Carrier Approach
These two Naval Aviators discuss IFF during the review of the incident.
I learned that it is possible to “lose” the IFF “punch” due to the Cat shot.
They also discussed IFF expiring due to Zulu time
With friendlies like that, we don’t need enemies.
The final report will come out in a year and a half, when everyone has forgotten about it.
The DEI with their finger on a button is not good
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