In March 1984, the Soviet Victor I-class nuclear-powered attack submarine K-314 collided with the US aircraft carrier USS ...

Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions.

USS Kitty Hawk, which could carry up to 80 aircraft ... Andy Gabriel/Wikipedia As a result of the collision, the Soviet submarine’s propeller was heavily damaged. The aircraft carrier had ...

And this is exactly what one Soviet submarine tried to accomplish during the peak of the Cold War. It was way back in March 1984 when the eighty-thousand-ton USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) Carrier Strike ...

Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk ...

The Kitty Hawk scrape wasn’t the most serious collision involving a submarine during the Cold War.Ten years earlier in 1974 a Soviet attack submarine struck the U.S. Navy ballistic-missile sub ...

Kitty Hawk continued to be a vital part of the US Pacific Fleet for more than two decades after the Soviet submarine collision. In the early 1990s, it would support US military operations in ...

Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions. It was ...