<p >The Yemeni Ansurullah Coalition was on April 28 confirmed to have come close to striking an American supercarrier, with the USS Harry Truman forced to turn hard to evade fire. An F-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft fell overboard and was lost at sea during the turn. The Yemeni anti-ship ballistic missile reportedly used a very shallow trajectory, providing minimal warning time and thus preventing escorting U.S. Navy destroyers from intercepting it. This represented the second missile strike by Yemeni forces that came within very close range of an American aircraft carrier, following a prior incident reported in October 2024. The loss of an F-18 follows a prior shootdown of one of the aircraft operating from the same aircraft carrier in the theatre in December, which the Ansurullah Coalition claimed to have brought down. The U.S. Navy claimed the fighter was shot down by friendly fire. The Ansurullah Coalition has continued to <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/yemeni-ansurullah-amazing-arsenal-shocked" target="_blank">surpass Western expectations</a> in the levels of resistance it has been able to pose, with its forces have sustained missile attacks both against Western warships and against Israeli ground targets, while also sustaining an air defence capability and continuing to shoot down MQ-9 Reaper drones that operate closer to their airspace. Over 20 MQ-9s have been shot down since hostilities escalated in October 2023.</p>