The Royal Navy used a Wildcat helicopter to stop a smugglers’ boat in The Gulf
(Picture: PA Media)A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter forced Iranian weapons smugglers to abandon controls of their speed boat by swooping so low as it raced across The Gulf of Oman, The Standard understands.
As the three men were forced onto the floor of the skiff by the aircraft’s powerful downwash, a Royal Marine boarding party was able to seize control of it in the dead of night.
