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Underwater Drone Captured By Iran Matches American Anduril Model
navalnews.com • • nation
Key Points:
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have captured an American underwater drone in the Straits of Hormuz, with photographic evidence closely matching the U.S.-designed Anduril Dive-LD model.
- The Anduril Dive-LD is a large autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) approximately 5.8 meters long and 2 meters in diameter, used for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and potentially mine countermeasures or armed missions.
- This advanced U.S. Navy drone is more sophisticated than Iranian underwater drones, which are primarily used in regional conflicts such as in Yemen, but access to the Dive-LD could significantly enhance Iran’s underwater drone capabilities.
- The captured drone may provide Iran with technology that could be shared with its allies, including Russia or China, potentially impacting regional and global underwater drone warfare dynamics.
