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CNN reports that a U.S. Navy patrol craft fired warning shots at an Iranian vessel:
A US Navy patrol craft fired three warning shots at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boat Wednesday after US officials said it had harassed that patrol craft, CNN has learned. Another US patrol craft and a Kuwaiti Navy ship were also harassed in the incident, which took place in the northern end of the Persian Gulf.
At one point, the Iranian boat came within 200 yards of one of the US Navy boats. When it failed to leave the area after the Navy had fired flares and had a radio conversation with the Iranian crew, the US officials said, the USS Squall fired three warning shots. Following standard maritime procedures, the Navy fired the three shots into the water to ensure the Iranians understood they needed to leave the immediate area.
Also at Reuters.
The incident occurred a day after four Iranian vessels made a "high speed intercept" of a U.S. warship.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 26 2016, @04:41PM
Warning shots? FFS - if you didn't have to kill anyone, then it wasn't even an incident.
Back in the day of wooden ships, and iron men, people EXPECTED you to fire warning shots now and then. We fired a few warning shots at Colonel Khadafy, and accidentally killed one of his daughters.* THOSE became reportable incidents.
* Or, did we kill one of his daughters?
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2088074,00.html [time.com]
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!