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UK destroyer downs suspected attack drone ‘targeting Red Sea shipping’
Illustrative: An Egyptian watches the British destroyer HMS Diamond pass through the Suez Canal as it sails from the Red Sea toward the Mediterranean, on December 2, 2012. (AFP)
A UK destroyer has brought down a suspected attack drone in the Red Sea, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps says, amid rising maritime tensions in the region.
“Overnight, HMS Diamond shot down a suspected attack drone which was targeting merchant shipping in the Red Sea. One Sea Viper missile was fired and successfully destroyed the target,” Shapps says in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.
