More than 80 dead as an Iranian warship is torpedoed by a U.S. submarine, the first since World War II.

Washington. This Wednesday, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War of the United States, reported that his nation has sunk an Iranian warship through a torpedo attack launched from a submarine in the Indian Ocean. This is the first such attack carried out by a US submarine since World War II. «In the Indian Ocean yesterday, a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. We sank it using a torpedo. It was the first sinking of an enemy ship with a torpedo since World War II,» declared Hegseth at a press conference. The Iranian frigate IRIS Dena sank in waters near Sri Lanka, and the Pentagon released a video of the attack and the explosion that caused the sinking of the ship. «This is the first occasion since 1945 that a fast attack submarine of the United States Navy has succeeded in sinking an enemy with a Mark 48 torpedo,» stated General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, during the same press conference.