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'What the f*** did I just hit?': Shocking moment Russian hunter-killer submarine crashed into Royal Navy warship that was stalking it in the Arctic Circle
UK Daily Mail ^ | 01/06/2022 | David Averre

Posted on 01/07/2022 3:26:33 AM PST by DFG

The Royal Navy has admitted one of its warships collided with a Russian hunter-killer submarine in the north Atlantic in what is believed to be the first collision between Russian and British vessels since the Cold War.

The Russian submarine was lurking 200 miles north of Scotland in 'late 2020' when the crew of HMS Northumberland was dispatched on a 48-hour mission to hunt it down amid fears it would try to tap into or cut undersea cables essential for communication and the internet.

The Royal Navy's Type 23 frigate sailed into the region where the sub was believed to be hiding and deployed its array sonar - a cable covered in hydrophones pulled along behind the hull - to listen for sounds from the sub.

But in what a navy source has described as a 'million-to-one chance event', the submarine passed right behind the British vessel and smashed into the sonar cable being towed behind the frigate.

The collision, which was caught on film by a Channel 5 TV crew, did considerable damage to the HMS Northumberland's sonar device which was raked across the Russian sub's hull, forcing the British crew to abort their mission and return to base for repairs.

In the video of the moment of impact, a crew member is heard exclaiming, 'what the f*** have I just hit?'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: frpottymouths; northumberland; royalnavy; russia; submarine
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1 posted on 01/07/2022 3:26:33 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Well I feel better knowing only the Russians can navigate without hitting another ship. How many USN ships have reportedly had accidents… and how many did that were never reported.


2 posted on 01/07/2022 3:28:46 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: DFG

“Bedford Incident” clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBu3JBLWsXE&ab_channel=TributeFlight

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058962/


3 posted on 01/07/2022 3:28:49 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

This isn’t surprising IMO. What is surprising is the Royal Navy has women walking around the ship in towels. May there’s also karaoke in the lounge bar.


4 posted on 01/07/2022 3:30:13 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: DFG
"What the f*** did I just hit?"

Perhaps it was the ship that you were 'stalking' just a wee bit too closely? Hmmm?

5 posted on 01/07/2022 3:36:15 AM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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To: Vision

Perhaps they’ve reinstated the rum ration?

CC


6 posted on 01/07/2022 3:37:48 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DFG

The sub didn’t hit the ship, it hit the towed sonar array which probably several hundred yards behind the ship.


7 posted on 01/07/2022 3:39:21 AM PST by Lower Deck
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To: DFG

According to another version, the Russian submarine got a nice piece of the top-secret sonar array.


8 posted on 01/07/2022 3:42:08 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: DFG

With all the trannies running around our military, “What the f*** did I just hit?” has a different meaning in the U.S. Navy.


9 posted on 01/07/2022 3:42:35 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Lower Deck

Thank you! Exactly.


10 posted on 01/07/2022 3:45:12 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: noiseman

Hey-oh!

Well said.


11 posted on 01/07/2022 3:46:12 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: noiseman; Lazamataz

Laz you need to see #9 here!


12 posted on 01/07/2022 3:46:55 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: noiseman

🤣🤣🤣


13 posted on 01/07/2022 3:48:34 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Celtic Conservative
"Perhaps they’ve reinstated the rum ration?"

“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.”

Winston Churchill

14 posted on 01/07/2022 3:54:24 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Celtic Conservative
Perhaps they’ve reinstated the rum ration?

"Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash..." Three noble traditions of the British Navy.

The only thing they have yet to re-instate is the Lash.

Regards,

15 posted on 01/07/2022 4:00:02 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Lower Deck

Awwwww. Killjoy!!!

It’s so much more fun reading what the ignorant post.


16 posted on 01/07/2022 4:03:01 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)
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To: Lower Deck
"Now OBSERVE, matey, whilst I do some 'Stealthful Stalking' here...

.

..... KEEEERAASHHH!!!!

17 posted on 01/07/2022 4:06:00 AM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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To: DFG

“If he fires one, I’ll fire one.”

‘FIRE ONE!’


18 posted on 01/07/2022 4:06:06 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: alexander_busek

The US Navy has yet to reinstate rum or the lash.


19 posted on 01/07/2022 4:08:49 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Vision
What is surprising is the Royal Navy has women walking around the ship in towels.

No wonder there's no more work for cabin boys.

20 posted on 01/07/2022 4:30:20 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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