The drone that picked up the downed helicopter crew was a Corsair made by Texas-based Saronic Technologies.

President Donald Trump blamed Iran on Tuesday for shooting down a U.S. Army helicopter close to the Strait of Hormuz and said the United States must respond. Iran’s top diplomat said foreign military forces near the country’s territory “are at constant risk.

A US drone boat conducted a first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the crew of an American Apache helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the military said. The unmanned vessel,

It was the first U.S. rescue carried out by an autonomous surface vessel and remotely piloted by a human operator, according to a military spokesperson.

Donald Trump raised the prospect of escalating his war after blaming Iran for shooting down a U.S. Apache helicopter—despite previously claiming Tehran’s military had been obliterated. Just hours after he insisted a peace deal was only days away,

Iran and Israel appeared to stand down Monday after a series of missile attacks and airstrikes marked the first time the two countries fired on each other since the U.S. ceasefire went into effect two months ago.