BREAKING: Iran's IRGC Navy announces it captured one of the US military's newest unmanned submarines at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz at dawn today, describing it as a "complex intelligence and operational" action, and says the vehicle carries the newest underwater technology in the world and was delivered to the US fleet only in 2025. The vehicle is an Anduril Dive-LD, a six-meter, three-ton survey submarine rated for ten days underwater and 6,000 meters of depth and delivered to the US Navy's unmanned undersea squadron in 2025, with new photos just released showing the white hull intact, half submerged and rigged to a crane sling at an Iranian pier, which means Iran now holds a current-generation US underwater platform in one piece, the same position it was in with the Israeli Hermes 900 it took earlier in the war and handed to IRGC engineers. The US RQ-170 Iran captured in 2011 never left the country either. One of the newest vehicles in the US Navy's undersea inventory is now on a crane hook in an Iranian harbor.
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