Second US Drone Seized
Iran reports seizing a second United States unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy says it captured a U.S. Remus 600 unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz, alleging it was conducting espionage. The IRGC said the seizure followed a coordinated operation involving intelligence and electronic-warfare capabilities and that specialists would recover and examine the vehicle’s data. The announcement follows Iran’s earlier reported capture of a U.S. Dive-LD underwater vehicle near the strait. The IRGC also declared the waterway closed and warned against what it called dangerous activity and unauthorized passage; these claims were not independently verified in the reports.
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The IRGC said the earlier Dive-LD was captured on September 8 near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
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Tasnim identifies the Dive-LD as an approximately 5.8-meter-long autonomous vehicle developed by Anduril Industries and delivered to the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Group 1 in 2025; it is designed for missions including surveillance, seabed mapping, infrastructure inspection and mine countermeasures.
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Xinhua reported that Iran tightened restrictions on the strait on February 28, barring safe passage for vessels belonging to or affiliated with Israel and the United States after joint strikes on Iranian territory.
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