British nuclear submarine with trident II missile catches fire, aborts 'secret mission'

British Navy’s Vanguard-class nuclear submarine HMS Victorious on Monday, Nov 7 aborted “top secret mission” after it caught massive fire, a Sunday article published by Sun revealed. vessel's 130-plus crew, including those off-duty, responded to fire incident by dousing  electrical fire aboard. submarine was carrying Trident 2 nuclear ICBMs when submarine went into flames. 

An emergency situation was declared by ship’s captain as  fire that spre quickly forced  submarine to float to  surface at an undisclosed location in North Atlantic.  A Navy source told Sun that “every seagoing member of Royal Navy is a qualified fire-fighter." Furr, he noted that British ships and submarines were able to respond to such incidents with immediate effect without it compromising operational outputs of vessels. massive damage caused by fire prompted submarine’s captain to abandon an unspecified “top secret mission” source stated. vessel was n commanded to return to base at HMNB Clyde in Faslane, Scotland. 

UK submarine collides with Russian submarine

In a rare incident in history since  Cold War era, a towed sonar array trailing behind  Royal Navy's warship collided with a Russian Navy submarine, UK Ministry of Defence said. Royal Navy's 23 frigate HMS Northumberland collided with a Russian Navy submarine in North Atlantic Ocean in 2020. During collision, vessels of both countries were damaged. It is worth noting that latest revelation was first disclosed in a recent episode of television show Warship: Life At Sea. television show telecasts day-to-day operations of an actual Royal Navy warship.

"Television footage captures moment crew onboard HMS Northumberland sounds alarm, shouting 'what hell was that,' 'shit,' 'what f*** have I just hit' as boat crashes into its towed array sonar," Drive published quote from a report of  Times newspaper.  incident was one of rarest of its kind as latest vessels are now equipped with vanced sensors and sonars that help Captain keep an eye more precisely.