USS Boxer had a bizarre and dangerous encounter with an Iranian chopper right before the ship destroyed a drone
Ellen Ioanes
The Wall Street Journal reporter Rory Jones recounted the tense hours just before the US took down an Iranian drone in the Persian Gulf, where tensions between the US and Iran have played out in recent months.
According to Jones, who was on the USS Boxer, an Iranian helicopter flew within yards of ship's flight deck, and an Iranian vessel trailed it by 500 yards before the Boxer jammed an Iranian drone and destroyed it.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Rory Jones was aboard the USS Boxer in the hours before the US amphibious flattop downed an Iranian drone and recounted a series of tense encounters that led up to the engagement.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tense-lead-up-to-the-us-downing-iranian-drone-2019-7
