A member nation of a U.S.-backed naval coalition intercepted a ship carrying illicit arms from Iran in the Arabian Sea last week, the U.S. Navy says.
A Navy spokesman, Lieutenant Commander Tim Hawkins, told VOA the small cargo vessel was not formally registered to any country.
Hawkins said illicit arms suspected to be Iranian and Russian, including anti-tank weapons, were seized. He said most of the weapons were disposed of at sea but some were saved for analysis by the crew of a U.S. guided missile destroyer, U.S.S. Forrest Sherman that arrived soon after weapons were discovered.
U.S.S. Forrest Sherman
