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An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was "defenceless" and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports.

Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said “the Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk [sic] part in our Milan exercise”. Sibal added that because it was taking part in an exercise “it was defenceless”.

Indian politician Supriya Shrinate said on social media: "These Iranian navy men parading at an event in India, were our guests. Invited by us.

"US submarine targeted their ship and killed them while they were returning home." Shrinate also criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to make a statement on the attack.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  1. Frankly I straight up do not believe it was unarmed. Why the hell would you sail a warship around without any munitions…?
  2. I’m guessing they didn’t want to use an antiship missile because there was other civilian traffic in the area, and you cannot control a missile from a sub once it’s fired. Mk.48 torpedoes have wire-guided capability, so you can literally steer it into your target. And no, afaik US subs do not carry any other variety of torpedo - that’s it. And they have a pretty fucking big warhead. Yes, overkill, but if they received orders to sink an enemy combatant… they’re gonna use what they got.

Please note: in no way am I attempting to be an apologist here. I’m just trying to point out that some parts of this story are not terribly believable, and that attack subs have very particular capabilities and constraints that they operate with. The order was shitty. But at the end of the day, it was an enemy vessel, and the sub’s CO got an order to sink it.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Why the hell would you sail a warship around without any munitions…?

Because they were invited to an international naval exercise that required them to be unarmed...

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It would said without munitions because that's what it was asked to do as a GUEST in a third-party country.

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