You Can’t Make This Up: Another U.S. Navy Fighter Jet Narrowly Escapes ‘Friendly Fire’ Disaster

A Navy Boeing F/A-18 “Super Hornet”, assigned to the USS Carl Vinson, receives fuel from a Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in the skies above Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Mar. 2, 2011.

Another U.S. Navy fighter jet narrowly avoided becoming the second victim of a “friendly fire” incident over the Red Sea.

On the same night an F/A-18 Super Hornet was shot down by a surface-to-air missile launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg...