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India granted docking permission on 1 March for three Iranian warships, three days before the Iris Dena was torpedoed by a US submarine and sank about 20 nautical miles west of Galle, Sri Lanka, killing at least 87 sailors. Iris Lavan docked in Kochi on 4 March, and Sri Lanka later granted sanctuary to Iris Bushehr on 5 March, illustrating mounting regional tensions as the US-Israel campaign against Iran continues.
A U.S. submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena in international waters in the Indian Ocean with a Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo, marking the first submarine-launched kill since World War II. The 3,744-pound torpedo carries a 650-pound warhead and can be wire-guided from the launch submarine or operate autonomously if the wire is lost, with ongoing hardware Mods and software updates to stay effective across modern undersea environments.
A logistical pipe-laying vessel with a crew of more than 100 near Sri Lanka sought urgent docking at Colombo after a US torpedo sank the Iris Dena frigate, killing about 87 sailors; Sri Lanka weighed the request as rescue operations continued and regional tensions linked to US-Israel actions on Iran escalated beyond the Middle East.
An Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, sank about 40 nautical miles off Galle, Sri Lanka, triggering a rescue operation that recovered several bodies and 32 wounded; about 180 crew were aboard, and the cause of the sinking is not yet known as search and rescue continues. The ship had just completed participation in the 2026 International Fleet Review in Vishakhapatnam.