I led a top secret Royal Navy mission – this is how we shot down a ballistic missile

I led a top secret Royal Navy mission – this is how we shot down a ballistic missile

Royal Navy Commander Pete Evans’ children first found out what he was doing from a newspaper they were using to papier mâché at school. Two thousand miles away in the Red Sea, the Iran-backed Houthi militant group was firing missiles and drones at merchant ships, killing crew and sinking vessels. Evans and his 240-strong crew, on the British warship HMS Diamond, had been called up in a life-or-death operation to take them on. The mission, which …