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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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To: DFG

Hubba hubba the blond in a towel walking down the passageway.. As if shipboard disipline isnt tough enough, it’s just another rule the navy has to enforce on young fighting men.


21 posted on 01/07/2022 4:31:40 AM PST by Ikeon (Ill try not to be mean , if you put an effort into not being stupid.)
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To: DFG
Not novel: November 5, 1983
Experts Report Soviet Sub May Have Hit U.S. Gear By Fred Hiatt November 5, 1983 A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine floundering on the surface of the Atlantic between Bermuda and the Carolinas may have become disabled after colliding with a submarine-tracking sonar device being towed by a U.S. Navy frigate, according to experts who have seen intelligence reports. The 341-foot-long submarine, which was barely making headway yesterday as it waited for the arrival of a Soviet tender ship, was spotted early Wednesday morning by a U.S. Navy patrol plane. On Tuesday, the U.S. frigate USS McCloy arrived in Norfolk after a submarine-tracking mission, missing its towed sonar buoy and the cable to which it had been attached...Reports that the cable and sonar device might still be wrapped around the submarine's propeller raised the possibility that what had been an intelligence coup for the United States and an embarrassment for the Soviet Union also might provide an intelligence bonus for the Soviet fleet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/11/05/experts-report-soviet-sub-may-have-hit-us-gear/3b30d156-cebb-445c-9c4b-4ffdce10dcec/
Russia’s New Sonar Drones Were Made to Find U.S. Submarines Stealth be gone? .. Russia has begun testing unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) equipped with towed sonar arrays, according to the newspaper Izvestia...Russian warships equipped with towed arrays can detect a moving submarine at a distance of 9.3 to 12.4 miles, a surface ship at a distance of 30 to 100 kilometers (18.6 to 62.1 miles) and an incoming torpedo at 15 to 30 kilometers (9.3 to 18.6 miles), according to Izvestia. - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/russia%E2%80%99s-new-sonar-drones-were-made-find-us-submarines-178323

22 posted on 01/07/2022 4:36:46 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: GaltAdonis

Ya have to wonder why *ANY* attack boat would be so shallow that it or its towed array could be struck.

Not like there’s a thermocline at 20 fathoms.


23 posted on 01/07/2022 4:54:11 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: DFG

When one’s towed sonar array (designed to detect the location and movement of the Russkie sub) gets smashed by the Russkie sub, one has to question the reliability of that sonar array (or the crew operating it).


24 posted on 01/07/2022 4:54:18 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Blueflag

Bad sentence/antecedent structure: why was the attack boat so shallow.

Perhaps the array of the British ship *WAS* deep enough to obstruct the deeper sub.

My reading error.


25 posted on 01/07/2022 4:57:08 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: momincombatboots

And your concern is not that the Royal Navy ship didn’t know it was a sub they were hunting?


26 posted on 01/07/2022 4:58:50 AM PST by pas
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To: DFG

“The Bedford Incident”

Fabulous film with a great cast. Everybody should see it. A great depiction of the tension and danger of encounters like this.


27 posted on 01/07/2022 5:11:35 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Carl Vehse

Um-hmmm...


28 posted on 01/07/2022 5:14:45 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: Rebelbase

29 posted on 01/07/2022 5:15:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: alexander_busek

Don’t give them any ideas.

CC


30 posted on 01/07/2022 5:46:01 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Lower Deck

1500 ft cable and 800 ft of various modules.


31 posted on 01/07/2022 5:49:01 AM PST by GreyHoundSailor (LGBTQ - Let's Get Brandon To Quit)
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To: momincombatboots

The Russian captain skillfully sought and destroyed the trailing sonar array completely undetected.

Russia 1 Brits 0


32 posted on 01/07/2022 5:53:24 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
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To: DFG

media and foreign officers have no business being on such a ship.


33 posted on 01/07/2022 5:56:52 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Rebelbase; DFG; motor_racer
That scene. As they looked up at the streaking weapon, the sheer terror in the Captain's and XO's eyes as the ASROC left the rail, the bright rocket plume making their faces even whiter, accentuating the fear. Quite a scene. That image stuck with me for many years.


34 posted on 01/07/2022 5:59:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: DFG
'million-to-one chance event',


35 posted on 01/07/2022 5:59:50 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: Blueflag
Perhaps the array of the British ship *WAS* deep enough to obstruct the deeper sub.

Part of the purpose of a towed array is to get hydrophones below a thermal layer. (Another part is to get hydrophones away from the ship's own noise.)

36 posted on 01/07/2022 6:09:41 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: DFG

“One of Our Submarines is Missing...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OsZTJ5vfUs


37 posted on 01/07/2022 6:10:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

Was the British ship named “HMS Bedford”?


38 posted on 01/07/2022 6:17:11 AM PST by GingisK
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To: noiseman

That is because container ships are obvious.


39 posted on 01/07/2022 6:18:27 AM PST by GingisK
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To: DFG

Fake news headline.

Clickbait.


40 posted on 01/07/2022 6:18:48 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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