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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monson" data-source="post: 31271455" data-attributes="member: 30005"><h3>$4.2M US torpedo detonates under Iranian warship in historic ‘No Mercy’ strike</h3><h3>Former submarine commander says strike sends message that 'gloves really are off' as 650-pound warhead lifted warship up out of the water</h3>A multi-million-dollar U.S. Navy torpedo detonated underneath an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/conflicts/iran" target="_blank">Iranian warship</a> in a nighttime submarine strike off Sri Lanka’s southern coast — an attack, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday in a Pentagon update, was the first of its kind since World War II.The weapon, identified as a Mark 48 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) torpedo, underscored the scale of force used, and signaled to Tehran that "the gloves really are off," according to a former U.S. submarine commander."The Mark 48 is one of the most lethal anti-ship weapons in the U.S. inventory," <a href="https://www.cnas.org/people/tom-shugart" target="_blank">Thomas Shugart,</a> an adjunct senior fellow at the <a href="https://www.cnas.org/" target="_blank">Center for a New American Security</a>, told Fox News Digital.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/military/navy" target="_blank">The torpedo</a> carries a 650-pound warhead and is designed not to strike a ship directly, Shugart said, but to detonate beneath it, creating a massive vapor bubble that breaks the vessel’s back and splits it in half."This torpedo detonated underneath the stern of the Iranian ship and lifted it up out of the water, and so it sank in a matter of minutes," he added.The torpedo costs approximately $4.2 million per unit, <a href="https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2167907/mk-48-heavyweight-torpedo/" target="_blank">according to recent data</a>, with Shugart likening the strike to rare submarine attacks in modern naval history.- <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/4-2m-us-torpedo-detonates-iranian-warship-historic-no-mercy-strike" target="_blank">https://www.foxnews.com/world/4-2m-us-torpedo-detonates-iranian-warship-historic-no-mercy-strike</a></blockquote>

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