C'mon la... dont tell me that super hornet doesn't have IFF or that uss Gettysbury guided cruise missiles doesnt have IFF radar..... that ship shot down one and nearly hit another super hornet....

Maybe houthi has some jammer that jammed the ship radar..

The decision to shoot was 'wrong'
As for what caused this disaster, the command investigation pointed to a series of failures, from shortcomings in the planning process to deficiencies in the Gettysburg’s combat systems, and noted that crew fatigue may have played a role.

US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, fly a mission over the US Central Command area of responsibility, April 8, 2025.
One F/A-18 was shot down, and another one barely survived during the friendly fire incident. US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jackson Manske
Early in the deployment, the investigation said, the Navy identified “significant degradation” in the Gettysburg’s core interoperability system. Problems spanned network management, surveillance and tracking reporting, identification, mutual tracking, mission engagement, and weapons coordination.

During the first three months of the deployment, the Gettysburg and Truman were often separated. The cruiser had been fending off Houthi missiles and drones shortly before the friendly fire incident, and there appeared to be some confusion over whether the threat had concluded.

That said, the investigation assessed "the decisions to shoot were wrong when measured across the totality of information available" to Gettysburg's commanding officer, who was constrained by a series of previous actions and decisions both in and beyond his control.

The captain had low situational awareness, and his combat information center team was unable to help him regain it, the investigation said.

This shootdown incident wasn't the Red Sea battle's only friendly fire incident, though it was the most serious. Earlier in the Red Sea conflict, in February 2024, a German warship accidentally targeted a US MQ-9 Reaper drone, but the missiles never reached it because the warship's radar system suffered a technical malfunction.

The December 2024 friendly fire incident was one of four major mishaps that the Truman strike group experienced during its monthslong deployment in the Middle East.

The aircraft carrier collided with a cargo vessel in February and also lost two more F/A-18s to accidents — one fell off the side of the warship along with a tow tractor in April, and another experienced a failure while landing and slid off the flight deck in May.

In a statement Thursday, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby said that "the Navy is committed to being a learning organization," adding that "these investigations reinforce the need to continue investing in our people to ensure we deliver battle-ready forces to operational commanders."

the innocent european genocidal maniacs that have been oppressing the local indigenous population for decades?

can you back up your claim with facts and source

Are they really that bored

secret mission stay low and shoot down by houthis

They were oppressing a terror outfit & its enablers & supporters.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011...potential-costs

Equipment malfunction they said lol

Terrorists or freedom fighters?

It depends on which side you are standing

Hamas has, is & will keep killing fellow Palestinians, steal their aid supplies & use them as cannon fodder. That sure is a very convoluted definition of freedom fighters.

WUMAO again. messing with the radar.

kekwak

software code logic flaw is common problem of redneck programmers but they try to blame on indians

Fuiyoh wumao so good until can go all the way to red sea

If it’s shot down there will be clear evidence like shrapnel damage

usa still dare laugh china aircraft carrier

the jet already cut in half by missile, same like bharatland rafale

Must be mabuk while on duty.

you dont know wumao tech.

Look like CCP but Not CCP?

its their obvious pattern.

You dont know only.

AMDKs and their imagination even more outstanding 😁

clear old f18 stock so can order new?