{"id":12090,"date":"2024-12-22T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/yemen-says-it-downed-american-f-18-fighter-jet\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:22:23","slug":"yemen-says-it-downed-american-f-18-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/yemen-says-it-downed-american-f-18-fighter-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen says it downed American F-18 fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4143823.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The Yemeni Armed Forces announced in a statement that, &#8220;We have thwarted the joint US-British attack and targeted the aircraft carrier &#8220;USS Harry S. Truman&#8221; and a number of its accompanying destroyers.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces said that\u00a0the operation was carried out using 8 cruise missiles and 17 drones.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni Armed Forces also announced that during this operation, an American &#8220;F-18&#8221; aircraft was shot down by Yemeni forces when the destroyers were trying to confront the Yemeni drones and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni Armed Forces further emphasized that after the aircraft carrier was targeted, the enemy aircraft left the skies over Yemen to defend the carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Two US Navy pilots ejected safely after their fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea on Saturday.\u00a0The aircraft, an F\/A-18, was operating from the USS Harry S. Truman when it was downed, the US Central Command said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The US military also said on Sunday that it had conducted airstrikes on Saturday on targets in the Yemeni capital of Sana\u2019a.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/6324352<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225855\/Yemen-says-it-downed-American-F-18-fighter-jet\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yemeni Armed Forces announced in a statement that, &#8220;We have thwarted the joint US-British attack and targeted the aircraft carrier &#8220;USS Harry S. Truman&#8221; and a number of its accompanying destroyers. In the statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces said that\u00a0the operation was carried out using 8 cruise missiles and 17 drones. The Yemeni Armed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}