Originally Posted by
RAFEngO74to09
Chairman JCS made the correct statement regarding the first sinking by a USN submarine since WWII.
This is the transcript from the video I watched:
in fact, yesterday, in the Indian Ocean (and we’ll play it on the screen there), an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War Two.
Given Hegseth’s imprecise language that was read from prepared remarks, we are left to decide whether he meant
any nation’s torpedo or an
American torpedo.
For some additional context, the U.S. has conducted numerous SINKEX operations since WW2, usually sinking old decommissioned warships with submarine-launched torpedos.