U.S. military shares video of torpedo strike sinking Iranian warship near Sri Lanka
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preCharge News POLITICS — The Pentagon shared video and photos on Wednesday of the strike that sank an Iranian warship roughly 1,000 miles from Iran’s coastal waters, near Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed during a news conference earlier, when he first showed the video, that a torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, calling it the “first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.” 

Sri Lanka deployed its navy to rescue some of the Iranian sailors from the vessel, but there were reports in the country’s press that as many as 80 of the ship’s crew had been killed.

“We have found a few bodies from the area where the ship had gone down,” local navy spokesman Buddhika Sampath told reporters in Colombo earlier, adding that a search for others was underway.

The Pentagon, sharing the video later, repeated Hegseth’s remark that the Iranian vessel “thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death.” 

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Associated Press, CNBC News, Fox News, and preCharge News contributed to this report.