Truman (CVN 75); Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 with nine embarked aviation squadrons; Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 28; the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, USS Gettysburg (CG 64); and two ...
EXCLUSIVE: 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 ...
25, 2024. US Navy Photo The Navy is already analyzing and training to prevent a repeat of a December friendly fire incident that saw USS Gettysburg (CG-62) shoot down a F/A-18 fighter jet.
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, ...
“The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command said in a statemen ...
the USS Gettysburg, shot down one of her F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets. The pilot and the Weapons Systems Officer ejected and survived; possibly the only good news in this scenario. The ability ...
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 ...
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) steams in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 15, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kaitlin Young ...
Second Super Hornet was targeted by a missile from the Gettysburg while preparing to land aboard the Truman. Earlier, The USS Gettysburg missile cruiser mistakenly struck an F/A-18 jet from the ...