The U.S. Navy has a process known as SINKEX or “sink at-sea live-fire training exercises” when a retired hull is used as a full-sized instrumented target. It is among the few instances during peace ...

The United States is perfecting a new way to sink ships at sea, and it starts by blowing up its own. In a series of live‑fire trials, aging Navy hulls are being turned into test dummies for superfast, ...

A U.S. submarine recently sank an Iranian warship in one of the world’s busiest maritime corridors. Many overlooked the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images On March 4, 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a U.S. submarine had torpedoed an Iranian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sinking of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka this week is something a US Navy submarine hasn’t done in more than ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. torpedoing of an Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka this week may have violated the Geneva Conventions by failing to help rescue sailors from the stricken warship, an act that could ...

The Iran war keeps expanding. American forces torpedoed the Iranian warship Iris Dena in the Indian Ocean, near Sri Lanka, ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi provided the first official Iranian response to the U.S. sinking of an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka. He accused the U.S. of perpetrating an “atrocity ...

On March 4, 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a U.S. submarine had torpedoed an Iranian warship, the IRIS Dena, off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan navy rescued ...