Royal Navy Submarine Confronts Russian Spy Ship in UK Waters

[Moonlover]

18 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Utter rubbish!

 

The designation SSN is used for interoperability throughout NATO under STANAG 1166 and by non NATO countries;

 

The following navies currently operate SSNs:

• United States Navy
• French Navy
• People's Liberation Army Navy of China
• Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
• Russian Navy
• Indian Navy

SSN (hull classification symbol) | Military Wiki | Fandom

Now, now. steady on The very first sentence in the same wiki article that you're quoting from says:

 

SSN is the US Navy hull classification symbol for such vessels. So my statement was not 'utter rubbish'. However as the term has been adopted for us by NATO and other countries I will concede that your use of it was correct.

 

An interesting factoid from that same article is that the UK  was the first ever country to use an SSN boat in hostile action, when HMS Conqueror sunk the Belgrano during the Falklands war. Following that engagement, not a single Argentinian naval vessel left port during the entire campaign, which does demonstrate the deterrent value of these subs.

 

Little wonder the Yantar quickly departed UK waters.

[GinBoy2]

I rather liked this story, had a touch of 'Red October' and cold war.

 

It's time we collectively grow a pair and assertive ourselves.

 

A nuke sub surfacing next to a spy ship, hope it scared the sh****t outta that crew

 

Well done to the Royal Navy, hope we see a lot more of it