Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy has claimed the seizure of a sophisticated unmanned American submarine at the gateway to the Strait of Hormuz, describing the vessel as a “prize of war” taken in a pre-dawn operation.
Iran’s military claimed that it captured a state-of-the-art underwater drone from US forces amid ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, but the US dismissed the sea drone as “defective and malfunctioning,” and said it didn’t have any classified equipment on board.
U.S. Central Command on Tuesday confirmed an underwater drone malfunctioned while operating near Iran. The confirmation came after Tehran said the country’s Revolutionary Guard seized an unmanned drone in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM spokesman Navy Capt.
Centcom says ‘defective’ drone was surveilling regional waters and was not collecting sensitive data Iranian forces claimed to have seized an American underwater drone in the strait of Hormuz that the US military said had “malfunctioned” more than a day earlier.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its naval forces seized a U.S. underwater drone near the Strait of Hormuz, but the U.S. military said the vessel had malfunctioned more than a day earlier. U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have seized a cutting-edge U.S. "smart submarine," raising tensions in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz.
WASHINGTON >> Iran’s capture of a U.S. military underwater drone gives Tehran an opportunity to study and potentially reverse engineer the vessel, delivering a setback for the Pentagon and drone maker Anduril.
By Mike Stone and David Jeans WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iran's capture of aU.S. military underwater drone gives Tehran an opportunity to study and potentially reverse engineer the vessel, delivering a setback for the Pentagon and drone maker Anduril.
The Pentagon calls the captured Dive-LD expendable, while Tehran prepares to squeeze every engineering secret it can from America’s $2.5 million robot submarine. #Iran #Anduril #DiveLD #UnderseaWarfare #DefenseTechnology
WASHINGTON — Iran's capture of a U.S. military underwater drone gives Tehran an opportunity to study and potentially reverse engineer the vessel, delivering a setback for the Pentagon and drone maker Anduril.
Iran is about to get a crash course in the latest in American drone sub technology – and now has a chance to try to build their own version of a captured $2.5m US Navy drone sub that its military forces paraded on state TV.
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