Yemen downs F-18, target USS Truman thwarting attack on Sanaa
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The Yemeni Armed Forces successfully thwarted an American-British attack on the country, shooting down an F-18, forcing the USS Harry Truman to withdraw, and warning of further action to defend Yemen and support Palestine.

EDIT: Another interpretation of the statement suggests they take responsibility for the event by proxy of deterring said aircraft which was then targeted by friendly air defences.

EDIT II: Prev. statements by Houthis suggest they had formulated new tactics to tail fighter craft with drones/missiles a while back so probably more likely that had something to do with it.

Ansarollah have historically followed up with evidence of such claims against UAE/Saudi aircraft of the same generation. They definitely have the capability, but no hard evidence yet.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    16 hours ago

    Shame we'll never find out because forced friendly firing an aircraft would be such a windmill slamdunk of embarassment for the USAF that they'd never admit it

      • miz [any, any]
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        12 hours ago

        they have said it's friendly fire but not anything along the lines of "they fooled us using a drone to tail our fighter and we blew up our fighter jet"

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        14 hours ago

        as far as I can overlook the situation the official position is "whoops!"