There are only two confirmed and one alleged incidents of warships being targeted and sunk by submarine-fired torpedoes and ...
IRIS Dena was one of Iran’s newest combat ships, and had 180 personnel on board when the submarine attacked. Reports of the Dena being in distress first emerged overnight between Mar. 3 and Mar. 4, ...
After a U.S. submarine sank Iran’s IRIS Dena with a Mk 48 torpedo, attention turned to the Navy’s primary undersea weapon that first entered operational service in 1972.
The Royal Netherlands Navy's (RNLN's) new Orka-class diesel-electric submarines will be introduced to service with Naval ...
A US fast attack submarine (SSN) struck an Iranian surface warship with a Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo during the first 100 hours of the combined US and Israeli ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls Iranian warship sinking a message that 'gloves are off' as U.S. nuclear submarine ...
The downing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena marks the first time an American submarine has destroyed an enemy warship in decades.
The Torsk's sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades - that is until March 3 ...
Since 1991, Navy subs have launched scores of cruise missiles in combat, but the torpedo attack off Sri Lanka is a return to form after 80 years.
A US Navy submarine launched a Mark-48 torpedo to sink an Iranian frigate - Iris Dena - in the Indian Ocean, marking the first American torpedo strike since World War II.
The Mark 48 is the U.S. Navy’s heavyweight submarine-launched torpedo for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare.