An Iranian navy helicopter flew very close to a United States warship in the Gulf of Oman in an incident that eventually ended without escalation, a Pentagon official said Nov. 15.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters the helicopter circled the U.S. Navy’s multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Essex three times, coming within 25 yards of the ship’s port side and, at one point, only about 10 feet off the ocean.
