The Sri Lankan Navy carried out a daring rescue operation to save 32 Iranian sailors who survived a US torpedo attack on the Iranian warship Iris Dina on 4th March. The attack occurred approximately 19 nautical miles off Galle,

The Indian Navy has deployed its P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to aid in the search for sailors from the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, which sank off Sri Lanka after being torpedoed by a U.S. submarine.

After a U.S. submarine sank Iran’s IRIS Dena with a Mk 48 torpedo, attention turned to the Navy’s primary undersea weapon that first entered operational service in 1972.

A U.S. Navy attack submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, the Pentagon has confirmed. Authorities in Sri Lanka had earlier announced they had rescued Iranian sailors from the Moudge class frigate IRIS Dena after what they said appeared to be a submarine attack.

The U.S. attack on an ⁠Iranian ⁠warship in the Indian Ocean this ⁠week was the first time since World War Two that the United States ​has sunk an enemy vessel with a torpedo. The following details are based on accounts from Sri Lankan,