Lawmaker to Pentagon: Did Iran Seizure of US Navy Boat Net Classified Tech?

Defense News: WASHINGTON — A member of the US House Armed Services Committee is calling on the Pentagon to tell Congress whether US Navy vessels and crew seized by Iran allowed sensitive American equipment that may have been aboard to be exploited.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former US Marine and Iraq War veteran, said Iran — a “terrorist-sponsoring” existential threat to the US — accessed US cryptographic and satellite communications, sensors, jammers Hunter believes were aboard the two Navy patrol boats.

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