The friendly fire may have killed dozens of servicemen, Al Jazeera have reported.
According to local media, an Iranian battleship was accidentally hit by a C-802 Noor missile during military exercises, causing it to sink.
ELINT News reported that the Iranian Jamaran frigate accidentally fired on the Konarak support ship with an anti-ship cruise missile during exercises.
Twitter user SkyWatcherIntel first broke the story, and included a photo of the vessel that was struck and sunk.
#BREAKING: An Iranian Navy Frigate has been sunk by in a blue on blue incident after an anti-ship missile was fired from an Iranian Destroyer, initial reports suggest that 40+ have been killed and multiple others are yet to be accounted for.
— SkyWatcher Intel (@skywatcherintel) May 10, 2020
#UPDATE: Photo of the vessel sunk in today’s incident pic.twitter.com/DKEIIqqtKP
— SkyWatcher Intel (@skywatcherintel) May 10, 2020
In mid-April, Iranian fast boats harassed U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf. President Trump ordered our ships to destroy any Iranian boats that got too close.
Iran’s military is having a poor and very deadly run of form. Back in January Iranian forces shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner they evidently mistook for a U.S. warplane.
Is that what those ragheads call a battleship? Lord, Lord!
If that is a battleship, the destroyer that sunk it must be more like a bassboat!
The one firing is a frigate. The one fired upon in the distamce is a battleship.
Oh, frig it, Joe!
Try getting the FACTS right. Iran has NO battleships! Good grief.
It shows a ship firing a missile and a larger ship in the distance. figure it out.
Sorry other news items label it as a warship that was sunk killing numerous sailors.
Friendly fire like we killed our own in Desert Storm. A helicopter shot at what they thought
was a Russian T-55 tank and it was US Mechanized Infantry from Germany Base Garlstad. i think 1st 41st Division. True fact.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of rats
According to the Iranian Navy Order of Battle, their largest surface ship is the Alvand-class frigate at 1,540 tons displacement. The Jarmaran is a Moudge-class frigate with 1,500 ton displacement. By contrast one of USN smallest combat ships is the Freedom-class littoral combat ship at 3.900 tons. The USS Iowa, an actual battleship displaces 58,400 tons. The Iranian ship sunk is hardly a “battleship.”
The US Navy’s smallest commissioned ship is the Cyclone Class Patrol Ships, right around 1650 tons.
good for them. They have much bigger problems to deal with than this little fuck up.
Apparently whoever wrote the article has no idea what a battleship is. Maybe they should look at pictures of an Iowa class battleship before they start writing articles.
Anyone who reads the article can see the vessel that was sunk was “the Konarak support ship.” Apparently the headline writer is not among those who can read the article. Nor are many of the commenters on this page.