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 ...
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
And your concern is not that the Royal Navy ship didn’t know it was a sub they were hunting?
“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.
Um-hmmm...
Don’t give them any ideas.
CC
1500 ft cable and 800 ft of various modules.
The Russian captain skillfully sought and destroyed the trailing sonar array completely undetected.
Russia 1 Brits 0
media and foreign officers have no business being on such a ship.
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.)
Was the British ship named “HMS Bedford”?
That is because container ships are obvious.
Fake news headline.
Clickbait.
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