The American military's underwater drone that Iran claimed to capture near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was an older Anduril Dive-LD model that was "defective and malfunctioning well before" the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced its so-called seizure, according to a source at U.S. Central Command. "The drone was essentially dead in the water for more than a day," Centcom spokesperson Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins told DefenseScoop. Hawkins discussed the command's early recap of the incident, after news reports surfaced from Iran's state media depicting an Anduril-branded unmanned undersea vessel that was allegedly caught by the IRGC Navy in waters around the entrance to the highly-contested strait.