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IRIS Dena during better days. It has reportedly lost the ability to displace water.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Department of Defense\/War has confirmed that a US Navy fast attack submarine has torpedoed an Iranian frigate. There’s even video released already of the ship heaving out of the water from the blast. Jeff LPH sends in this breaking news. This is the first American torpedoing since WWII, and only the second kill by a nuclear powered sub. The only preceding nuclear sub to torpedo an enemy vessel was HMS Conqueror’s sinking of ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War. I talked about that incident a few months back on a Valor Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A United States Navy submarine sunk an Iranian ship with a single torpedo as the frigate was transiting the Indian Ocean, marking the first such kill by a U.S. submarine since World War II, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the strike during a Pentagon press briefing on Operation Epic Fury alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday, in the Indian Ocean … an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cInstead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n

The identity of the fast-attack boat was not revealed, as is custom for operational security surrounding submarine operations.<\/p>\n

The strike occurred off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, according to Reuters, which would indicate the action occurred in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility.<\/p>\n

The IRIS Dena, a Moudge-class frigate assigned to the Southern Fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, was in the region after reportedly taking part in a naval drill in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan Foreign minister Vijitha Herath said 180 people were on board the IRIS Dena. Thirty-two people were subsequently rescued by Sri Lankan naval personnel.<\/p>\n

Commander Buddhika Sampath, a Sri Lankan navy spokesman, said the rescue effort was also recovering bodies from the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time since 1945, a United States Navy fast attack submarine has sunk an enemy combatant ship using a single Mk-48 torpedo to achieve immediate effect, sending the warship to the bottom of the sea,\u201d Caine said during the press briefing Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an incredible demonstration of America\u2019s global reach. To hunt, find and kill an out-of-area deployer is something that only the United States can do at this type of scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caine added that, to date, the U.S. has hit over 2,000 total targets across Iran and destroyed more than 20 of the Islamic Republic\u2019s naval vessels.<\/p>\n

The campaign has \u201ceffectively neutralized, at this point in time, Iran\u2019s major naval presence in theater,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Strikes on infrastructure and naval capability by the vast assembly of U.S. forces in the region are expected to continue over the next 24 to 48 hours, Caine noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to assess our progress against the military objectives,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n