What You Need to Know: In 2009, a potentially catastrophic incident occurred when the United Kingdom’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant, both nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines, ...
Key Points and Summary - The 2009 Vanguard–Le Triomphant submarine bump showed how stealthy, passive, near-silent SSBNs can be invisible to each other—and how current “waterspace management” often ...