'Powerful strike': IRGC hits US destroyer with ballistic, strategic cruise missiles in Indian Ocean
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced striking an American destroyer in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometers away from Iran's borders.
The Corps issued the announcement on Tuesday, saying the warship had been hit using "Ghadr-380" and "Talaieh" missiles.
The Ghadr missile is a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers, designed for precision strikes and rapid deployment.
Talaeieh is a strategic cruise missile system capable of reaching targets up to 1,000 kilometers away. It is a smart missile that can change targets mid-mission, adding to its strategic capabilities.
The target lay more than 600 kilometers away from Iran's borders during the "powerful strike," the IRGC said.
The destroyer was refueling from an American tanker while it was hit, it added.
The strike, the Corps concluded, triggered "widespread fires" on board both the vessels.
The IRGC has launched an operation codenamed True Promise 4 in retaliation against renewed Israeli-American aggression that began targeting the Islamic Republic on Saturday.
So far, it has struck numerous sensitive and strategic targets deep inside the occupied territories, besides staging counterattacks against many American interests throughout the West Asia region, including those lying in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
The United States Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is among the targets that have been struck throughout the operation, which serves as a sequel to the IRGC's previous successful and decisive counteroffensives against hostile forces.
The Corps has vowed to sustain Operation True Promise 4 until the enemies' "complete defeat."
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