EDIT: Another interpretation of the statement suggests they take responsibility for the event by proxy of deterring said aircraft which was then targeted by friendly air defences.
EDIT II: Prev. statements by Houthis suggest they had formulated new tactics to tail fighter craft with drones/missiles a while back so probably more likely that had something to do with it.
Ansarollah have historically followed up with evidence of such claims against UAE/Saudi aircraft of the same generation. They definitely have the capability, but no hard evidence yet.
Shame we’ll never find out because forced friendly firing an aircraft would be such a windmill slamdunk of embarassment for the USAF that they’d never admit it
Uhh. They already did tho. Right?
as far as I can overlook the situation the official position is “whoops!”
they have said it’s friendly fire but not anything along the lines of “they fooled us using a drone to tail our fighter and we blew up our fighter jet”