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Field footage · At sea, CENTCOM area (not stated)

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ARCHIVE 2024: CENTCOM video of F/A-18 launches for strikes on Houthi targets

Night view of a grey U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jet on an aircraft carrier deck, lit by deck lights against a black sky, moments before launch.
U.S. Central Command video, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (U.S. Central Command video, U.S. federal work)

Video released Jan. 22, 2024 by U.S. Central Command. CENTCOM says that at about 11:59 p.m. Sanaa time on Jan. 22, its forces and UK Armed Forces, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, struck eight Houthi targets in Yemen, including missile systems and launchers, air defence systems, radars and buried weapons storage, to degrade Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and Gulf of Aden. The 23-second night video shows U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jets launching from an aircraft carrier deck. Archive item tied to the Saudi-led coalition's Oct. 20, 2026 claimed strike on the launcher of a Houthi missile fired at Riyadh.

What
ARCHIVE 2024: CENTCOM video of F/A-18 launches for strikes on Houthi targets
Where
At sea, CENTCOM area (not stated)
When
2024-01-22
Source
U.S. Central Command
Credit
U.S. Central Command video, via Wikimedia Commons
License
Public domain (U.S. Central Command video, U.S. federal work)
Details
Official release · U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) · At sea, CENTCOM area (not stated)

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  1. U.S. Central Command
  2. Field footage: the full record

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