Iran likely to reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone
The recovered Dive-LD vehicle could help Iranian engineers study U.S. undersea surveillance technology, analysts said.
- Iranian forces recovered a U.S. Navy Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting mockery from Iranian diplomatic missions online.
- Navy officials described the Dive-LD as an "older-model vehicle" that suffered a malfunction, leaving it "dead in the water" before Iranian forces seized it.
- Iran's embassy in Ghana boasted on X that they picked up the submersible in "a strait controlled by people who can hear a shrimp sneeze."
- Mona Yacoubian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Farzin Nadimi of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said Iran exploits such events to frame U.S. "ineptitude."
- Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute warned Iranian engineers "could definitely reverse-engineer the mechanical systems," potentially helping the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps improve their designs.
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Iran Publishes Video of Seized Advanced U.S. Undersea Drone
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced Tuesday the seizure of what it described as "one of the most modern, unmanned, and smart submarines" in the possession of the U.S. military, according to a statement published by RT. The announcement was accompanied by video footage of the captured vehicle, which the IRGC stated was taken during a "complex intelligence" operation. [1] The IRGC identified the drone as a Dive-LD model devel…
Iran's seizure of the US military's Dive-LD type unmanned underwater vehicle has sparked debate that Tehran could develop similar systems through reverse engineering by studying American military technology. While the US military maintains that the vehicle is an outdated and defective model, it does not carry sensitive data or hidden equipment, experts point out that the mechanical systems in particular could be examined by Iran.
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