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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Claim They Seized U.S. Unmanned Submersible in Strait of Hormuz

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy claimed it seized a U.S. unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz on the 8th.
  • The Guards said the vehicle entered U.S. service in 2025 and that it planned to release photographs within hours.
  • An official Guards media outlet identified the craft as Anduril Industries’ autonomous Dive-LD, though the claim came from Iranian sources.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy claimed it had seized a U.S. unmanned submersible at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, describing the operation as the result of complex intelligence and operational activity.

In a statement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency and other outlets, the Guards said naval combatants captured one of the U.S. military’s latest intelligent unmanned underwater vehicles early on the 8th. The statement referred to the U.S. military as “terrorist.”

Our naval combatants captured one of the terrorist U.S. military’s latest intelligent unmanned submersibles.

· Iran’s Revolutionary Guards NavyStatement describing the alleged seizure near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.

The Guards said the vehicle used the latest technology in underwater systems worldwide and had been delivered to the U.S. fleet in 2025. It added that the Revolutionary Guards currently had the vehicle in its possession and would release related photographs to the public within hours.

Sepah News, the Revolutionary Guards’ official media outlet, published an image it said showed the captured vehicle. It claimed the craft was Dive-LD, an autonomous unmanned submersible developed by U.S. company Anduril Industries. Sepah News also said the first Dive-LD had been delivered to the U.S. Navy’s unmanned underwater systems unit in 2025.

The IRGC currently has the U.S. military unmanned submersible in its possession and will release related photographs to the public within hours.

· Iran’s Revolutionary Guards NavyStatement announcing that photographs of the alleged captured vehicle would be released.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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