US submarine sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka coast
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“Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, … an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a press conference this morning. “Instead, sunk by a torpedo, quiet death, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.”
This story has been updated with additional information from U.S. Central Command about the sinking of an IRGCN corvette. An American attack submarine sank an Iranian Navy ship off the coast of Sri Lanka,
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an Iranian vessel that was sunk off its shoreline.
The Torsk's sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades - that is until March 3, 2026.
Since 1991, Navy subs have launched scores of cruise missiles in combat, but the torpedo attack off Sri Lanka is a return to form after 80 years.
The incident comes just days after the U.S. military announced it had struck Iran's largest naval warship as part of former President Donald Trump's Operation Epic Fury.
A submarine attack on an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka has left at least 101 people missing, one dead and 78 injured, sources in Sri Lanka's navy and defense ministry told Reuters.
Amid the ongoing US‑Israeli war on Iran, more than 100 personnel are missing and dozens have been rescued with injuries after a submarine attack on an Iranian ship off Sri Lanka’s coast.
Sri Lanka sent jets to rescue crew of Iranian ship 'Iris Dena' after it sounded a distress call. Sri Lanka denied that the ship was hit by a submarine attack.
COLOMBO, March 4 (Reuters) - At least 101 people were missing and 78 wounded after a submarine attack on an Iranian ship off Sri Lanka's coast, sources in Sri Lanka's navy and defence ministry told Reuters on Wednesday. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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