Iranian Warship Sunk By U.S. Submarine in International Waters, First Since WW2: Hegseth

An Iranian warship in international waters was sunk overnight by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, one of over 20 Iranian warships including a submarine and Tehran’s so-called “prize ship” destroyed by U.S. action in recent days, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

Pete Hegseth and United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine gave a joint briefing on Wednesday morning, where they confirmed the earlier-reported sinking of an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) was the work of a U.S. Navy submarine.

Publishing footage of the attack, the Department of War revealed infrared periscope video showing the ‘hot’ areas of the Iranian ship — the chimney stack and the engine seawater cooling discharge — highlighted in white. The video then clearly shows the result of a torpedo exploding directly under the stern of the ship, believed to be the Moudge class frigate Dena (top, bottom-left quarter, a sister ship of identical construction pictured), evidenced by the whole stern being lifted out of the sea by enormous mass of rising bubbles.

Iranian Warship Sunk By U.S. Submarine in International Waters, First Since WW2: Hegseth

Iranian Warship Sunk By U.S. Submarine in International Waters, First Since WW2: Hegseth

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