You Can’t Make This Up: U.S. Navy Shoots Down Its Own F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Jet in Apparent ‘Friendly Fire’ Incident in Red Sea

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet taxis after returning from a mission, during Exercise Northern Edge at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 18, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. William Banton/Released)‪

A U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser mistakenly shot down an American F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident.

The two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron 11 from Naval Air Station Oceana...