This is the moment a Royal Navy sniper takes out the engine of a drug-dealing speedboat crashing through waves at nearly 50mph – as his helicopter flies backwards.

As the sun rose over the Gulf of Oman, the Royal Marines were secretly tracking the skiff carrying £35m of crystal meth, heroin and hashish used to fund terror attacks in the region.

The drug boat’s crew tried offloading crates to get away from the Wildcat helicopter but were left stranded by the ‘remarkable shot’ – their operation smashed.

The commando sniper’s shot brought an end to ‘one of the most dramatic counter-drugs intercepts the Royal Navy has been involved with in the Middle East’, according to the force.

After the targets were identified, the HMS Lancaster launched a Peregrine mini-helicopter drone to provide a l

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