🇺🇸🇾🇪 Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier

Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with the matter told CNN.

It is not entirely clear what happened yet, as the investigation is ongoing, but two of the people said there was some kind of arrestment failure as the jet was trying to land on the carrier and the pilot and weapons systems officer had to eject. They were recovered by a rescue helicopter and are both alive, but they suffered minor injuries, one of the people said.

The jet crashed into the sea and has not been recovered, two of the people familiar with the incident said.

Separately, the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group “took a shot” at the Truman on Tuesday, the four sources said, despite President Donald Trump announcing an apparent ceasefire with the group hours earlier. It is not clear whether the two incidents are related.

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🇺🇸🤡 Of special note, Captain Chris "Chowdah" Hill is the current interim commander of the USS Harry S Truman. Hill became an online celebrity in 2024 for Pro NATO commentators during the deployment of the USS Dwight D Eisenhower against the Houthis in Yemen. Given that fame, his performance to date is worth mentioning:

▪️An F/A-18 shot down by the USS Gettysburg.
▪️Another F/A-18 lost after falling overboard due to evasive maneuvers due to Houthi fire.
▪️And, today, another F/A-18 lost after an “arresting failure”.

Even more notably, Hill was in command of the Truman during the recent incident of a Houthi ASBM nearly striking the ship (causing one of the aforementioned F/A-18 losses) as well as the 2024 incident where the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was nearly struck by another ASBM.

Congrats to “Chowdah” on a successful deployment! 🥳🎉

🇵🇰⚡️🇮🇳Indian Media showing the wreck of a Mig-29. (This makes senze as Mig-29s are stationed in Srinagar)

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🇮🇳🇵🇰🇫🇷 Dassault Aviation shares tumble by 1.84%.

They are the manufactures of India's newly bought Rafale fighter jets. They were shot down by Pakistan when India attempted to strike targets inside Pakistan.

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🇮🇳🇵🇰📝 - The jury is still out, I can be very wrong. But this is what I can gather so far. IAF losses as below:

1 Mirage 2000 in J&K
1 (possible) Su-30MKI in J&K
1 (possible) Rafale in Punjab

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🇹🇷🇵🇰 Türkiye stands in solidarity with Pakistan and opposes Indian aggression that violates Pakistan's sovereignty and kills civilians

This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during a telephone conversation with Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.