Two crew members of the US Army's Apache helicopter, which was downed near the Strait of Hormuz, were rescued by a drone boat developed by a Texas-based company with Indian-American Vibhav Altekar as a co-founder.

A U.S. Navy drone boat rescued two Army aviators after their Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman.

Elite US airborne troops from the 82nd Airborne Division were among the American forces involved in leading the rescue operation.