Royal Marine Sniper Stops Speedboat Carrying £40m Worth of Cocaine with a Single Shot From a Helicopter 

A Royal Marine sniper blasted a speedboat carrying £40million of cocaine after a dramatic six-hour chase across the Caribbean.

Navy ship Wave Knight launched a Lynx helicopter to fire shots at the traffickers during a daring operation in the middle of the sea.

They ignored the shots, forcing a sniper in the back of the helicopter to shoot out the engines of the speedboat and stopping the cocaine reaching its destination.

A Ministry of Defence statement said: ‘Royal Fleet Auxiliary Wave Knight concluded a dramatic six hour chase across the Caribbean, by shooting out the engines of a go-fast speedboat.

 The dramatic mission was captured on camera. Photographs showed the marine firing the shot from the sky as the traffickers watched from below.