The Telegraph newspaper published a critical report on the military superiority of the US Navy, which it saw as excelling only in compiling aerial imagery, describing the talk about the military capabilities of the escort ship Gettysburg accompanying the aircraft carrier as “air bubbles.”

Follow ups – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

The report indicated that the naval force and its accompanying ships sent a clear message to the military leadership that it failed to provide protection or maintain the safety of aircraft carriers, saying that the mission of the ship Gettysburg should be the last ship to be confused in this way.

The report mocked the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its air defense command ship USS Gettysburg, one of whose fighter jets, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, was shot down, pointing out their abject failure in its inability to identify and track friendly aircraft and hostile aircraft.

The report confirmed that the information about the details and how the aircraft was shot down is scarce with the American leadership, and that some of it will likely never be known, and although Truman’s aircraft were carrying out offensive operations against Sana’a’s forces, the ships were attacked at the same time.

It is considered that the military operations of the Yemeni armed forces revealed many gaps in the US naval power, which reveals the human superiority of the Sana’a forces in disrupting the battlefield, and that there must be an operational error in the executive orders for missions and special instructions (SPINS) from the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in Al-Udeid, Qatar.

The report questioned the failure of military systems and radars to know the tactical differences to distinguish between a friendly jet and an incoming missile, saying that if an unknown radar track appears in any unit, whether on the ground or in the air, these units have a process to identify friend or foe.

The article’s writer said that the Gettysburg ship was in a state of maximum alert after it had actually participated in the aggression against Yemen, noting the preference of the ballistic missiles possessed by the Yemeni armed forces in Sanaa, which are among the fast-moving categories.

He continued that conspiracy theories have indeed emerged, the first of which is that the plane was shot down by the Houthis, and he referred to another emerging theory that the Houthis have enough military awareness to be able to coordinate a strike with a specific returning air sortie to cause this kind of confusion.

He concluded by saying that naval warfare is a complex process, and no matter how good your equipment and training are, and no matter how first-class the US Navy is, things can go wrong, noting that there is no such thing as perfect aerial imagery or a flawless weapons system from flawless human performance.