Navy aviator scores first air-to-air victory by a US female fighter pilot
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By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed. The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower as pa…
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By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed. The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower as pa…
The military branch said last week that the unnamed aviator recently notched the achievement against an attack drone deployed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The pilot — whom the Navy did not identify — belongs to Strike Fighter Squadron 32 and flew an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to CNN.
A fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy became the first American woman to earn an air-to-air victory when she shot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea region.
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