‘Nightmare Fuel’: Friendly-Fire Incidents Over the Red Sea Make for the Navy’s Worst — and Luckiest — Day
A destroyer shoots down a Navy fighter jet seconds before it was due to land on its home aircraft carrier, and a second jet barely escapes a similar fate.
The United States Navy experienced one of its worst nightmares the other day: one of its guided missile cruisers, the United States Ship Gettysburg, shot down a Navy fighter jet just minutes before it was to land on its home aircraft carrier, the United States Ship Harry Truman.
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