Fred J. McCall wrote:

The IRANIANS claim the helicopters were scrambled to intercept it.
This is part of my reasoning for putting it down to baseless chest
thumping.

Hint: Helicopters aren't used as interceptors.

That's because ships haven't had to deal with UAVs before. As someone
else on this board has suggested, a helo with a machine gun may
actually be the best way of dealing with small, slow UAVs until
something more sophisticated can be developed.

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk