The Beeb reports that prior to the March capture of 15 British Royal Navy sailors by the Iranian Navy, an Australian Navy boarding party repelled a similar attack:
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, “were having none of it”.
The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be “highly colourful language”.
Good to know that the Aussies don’t put up with that. Good on ya, mates!
I wonder how limited the weaponry was? They sort of make it sound like the Britts boarded the ship with a couple of pistols and a flare. Maybe the real story involves not providing sufficient arms to the boarding party.