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full screen American aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. Archive image. Photo: Darko Bandic/AP/TT
A US warplane was accidentally shot down over the Red Sea by a US robotic cruiser on Sunday night, the US military said.
The plane’s two pilots survived, one of them was slightly injured. The fighter plane was an F/A-18 and had just taken off from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman when an accompanying robotic cruiser opened fire.
US forces in the region carried out strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday.