BREAKING: The founder of the US submarine that Iran captured, Palmer Luckey, directly contradicts CENTCOM's claim that it was "an older model that neither collected sensitive data nor carried any classified sonar or radar," confirming the vehicle is an Anduril Dive-LD that had been operating in the CENTCOM area for months, "successfully operating in support of American forces for thousands of hours," and provided significant value before its capture. "I can't get into the details [classified] but it provided significant value [collected sensitive data using sonar/radar] for months before capture," Luckey says. It is also not an old model like CENTCOM claimed, as mass production started at the start of 2026. Iran says it is already reverse engineering it. A senior Iranian source in Tehran familiar with the matter adds that China has asked Iran to take a look as well.
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