http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7892294.stm
Quote:
A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic, it has been reported. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month.
Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said.
The UK's Ministry of Defence is not commenting on the reports, but insisted nuclear security had not been breached.
Our defence correspondent said HMS Vanguard, with "very visible dents and scrapes", had to be towed back into its home base at Faslane on the Firth of Clyde. The submarines were both "seriously-armed", she also said.
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Would have been one hell of a Tsunami.
And in case you're wondering what she means by "seriously-armed".
One of Britain's four Trident submarines is always out there, somewhere under the Atlantic, carrying more destructive power than was unleashed in the entire campaign of World War II.It moves through the deep: silent, undetectable, untouchable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7758314.stm
Untouchable that is until the French reverse into it.
OT but Vanguard? Can't they think of more menacing names. Le Triomphant? WDF?
