Navy pilots are angry about the incident and question the training aboard the USS Gettysburg, the source said, calling it "insufficient." The "friendly fire" incident took place days after the ...

a more recent incident being a US airstrike in Afghanistan that killed five American servicemembers in 2014. Bradley Martin, a retired Navy surface warfare captain, said friendly-fire incidents ...

The USS Harry S. Truman has experienced a string of mishaps amid its combat deployment, during which it battled the Houthis.

US launched the largest 125,000-pound airstrike over Somalia, marking the largest from a single U.S. aircraft carrier.

In December, 2024, the US lost an F-18 jet (but the pilots ditched and were recovered) to a friendly fire incident. The Navy F-18 were launched from a US aircraft carrier and were fighting Houthi ...

Some 125,000 pounds (62.5 tons) of munitions were dropped by naval warplanes in Somalia, Admiral James Kilby has said Read ...

The Navy said earlier that the move crew on the USS Harry S. Truman "lost control" of the fighter jet before it fell ...

In a concerning turn of events, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed into the Red Sea during a nighttime landing on the USS Harry S Truman, marking t ...

Other US Navy ships in the region have also come under Houthi fire. In early 2024, a US destroyer in the Red Sea had to use its Phalanx Close-In Weapon System, its last line of defense to missile ...