US Navy fighter pilots have described as “traumatizing” their encounters with Yemen’s Armed Forces launching daring strikes on Israeli-owned and -bound shipping in the Red Sea in retaliation for the occupying regime’s months-long genocide against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The fighter pilots came home in Virginia on Friday after nine months of maritime clashes with the Yemeni military and their missile and drone strikes, in what CBS News referred to as “the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.”
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group, which includes three other warships supported by squadrons of F/A-18 Super Hornets, was tasked with protecting Israeli vessels and US-allied warships in a Red Sea corridor that leads to the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean
Last time US fighter pilots had to deal with people actually firing anti aircraft missiles at them was during the opening days of the first gulf war.
Anyone remember the iconic flight recorder video from an F16 over Baghdad being chased by six surface to air missiles? During the chase sustained an average of 3.6Gs with peak acceleration at points reaching 6.4G. Imagine repeatedly blacking out and waking up during something like that.
https://youtu.be/2uh4yMAx2UA
Anyone that played a modern combat flight sim knows it’s basically a horror game.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
my god that was intense. which is weird since I was hoping for a different ending.
I mean… if you’re going to stick your dick in a hornets nest… maybe you deserve some nightmares and trauma.