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The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Montpelier (SSN 765) returns to Naval Station Norfolk recently after a routine six-month deployment.
Updated at 9:24 a.m. ET: A U.S. Navy nuclear submarine and an Aegis cruiser collided during routine training off the U.S. East Coast on Saturday afternoon.
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The USS San Jacinto
No one aboard either the USS Montpelier or the USS San Jacinto was injured, Pentagon officials told NBC News. Both vessels continued to operate under their own power.
The Montpelier is a nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class fast attack sub launched in 1991. The San Jacinto is an Aegis-class missile cruiser commissioned in 1988.
"We have had circumstances where Navy vessels have collided at sea in the past, but they're fairly rare as to how often they do take place," Lt. Cmdr. Brian Badura of the Fleet Forces Command told The Associated Press.
"If we do have an incident that does take place, there are folks that swing into action ... to help us make a better, more conclusive explanation of exactly what happened," Badura added.
The Navy said in a news release that "overall damage to both ships is being evaluated," and that the sub's propulsion plant was "unaffected by the collision."
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Was anybody watching the sonar? radar?.
Screw the sonar and radar. Whatever happened to looking out the damned window occasionally? It's not like either of them was rowboat sized and easily overlooked, right?
Downyocean
I wasn't aware that submarines now have windows, based on your comment below! Shades of the old movie and weekly show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. "Chips Ahoy"
With all the technology we have, billions of dollars worth of equipment, and we STILL run into each other? What the heck????
The Chinese don't need an aircraft carrier, they just need to let the Navy drive around enough and they'll destroy the ships themselves.
Somebody is not going to get that promotion they were hoping for.
Im sorry...it's a bunch of water and it's pretty big. Who was steering what? Incompetent. Pure and simple. Jeeeez.
Speaking of McHale's Navy that reminds me of one PT Boat commander who lost his boat in a collision & it helped his career.
C'mon guys, this is a trailer from McHale's Navy part 2. Like to find out how many sailors have to change their soiled navy issued underwear after the incident. All kidding aside though, I am glad nobody's hurt !!!!!!Guess somebody will be scrubbing the deck for a LOOOOOONG time !!!
No one hurt, apparently no great damage done but now it will cost the careers of at least 2 officers and force same or more to quietly retire. In these great oceans they want more ships added to their budget.....LOL ..
makes sense why Mitt is proposing to buy three more nuclear subs now, need to replace the ones the Navy is self-destructing. What I don't understand is why he wants to give Lima-Ohio the upgrade to the M-1 tanks, they just don't seem all that useful in Afghanistan. May he sees the need for them in the Iranian desert??
And Syria, and North Korea, and maybe even Russia...
To everyone who's saying that the CO's careers are over, you may very well be wrong. I can cite instances of US naval collisions where the CO wasn't relieved of command. I know of at least one that went on to flag rank. What's pretty much guaranteed is that the COs will be sweating it out until the investigations are done.
Regarding nukes - Navy aircraft haven't had the mission of carrying nukes for several years. I'm pretty sure (not positive) that the only Navy ships (boats...) that carry nukes are the ballistic missile subs. Putting the blame on Obama is misplaced.
I don't know what type of exercises were going on, but I CAN say that an attack submarine's mission (among others) is to get within firing range of their torpedoes (or missiles). That could have been what was going on here.
I can say with certainty that most - not all - of the comments here are at best, ignorant of the way things work in the Navy, and at worst just plain idiotic.
Note: I wasn't a submariner. I was trained to sink them from the air. ; ) Hoovers forever!
OBAMA trashed the SHIP of STATE ... he figures people will be stupid enough to keep him on board to urinate for four more years on their Wheaties.
I wonder if they have insurance for such things? If they do I bet the installments are a b!tch
I am wondering how the Aegis cruiser is going to track Russian submarines if it can't track our own.
Shrug.
And how are our subs going to track Russian surface ships if they can't track friendly ships.
If this keeps up our enemies might think they can sneak around our coasts with their navies.
I think they should reduce their speed if they can't track each other. Maybe a "No wake" buoy should be installed at the Norfolk Navy base.
I'm sure the White House will release a statement that somehow it was George W. Bush's fault. Glad all our servicemen and women are okay. Keep up the good work!
And I'm sure the Romney campaign will claim that Obama ordered them to crash, and maybe even drove both boats...
You ain't that important...
I hate to tell you this, but it was some of your friends who did the deed. The way I heard it - they were tired of listening to you dump on Obama every fricking time somebody said anything. It was funny - the first 2 - 300 times - but it wearsout overtime. They were going to have an intervention -but then Frankie, "Hey, screw that- let's just piss in his corn flakes...so, that's how that happened.
If it matters, I tried to stop them, but I got to laughing so hard, no one took me seriously. Don't worry though - nobody has any STD's, although - Geno was there too - and you know what a whore monger he is...
Sounds like the Navy is letting illegal aliens with no drivers license drive the ships and subs. Wonder if they got out and ran after they collided. Hope they have insurance.
What the hell do illegal immigrants have to do with this topic?...
Romney is going to Outsource the U.S.Navy to China .
Or perhaps let Blackwater run them...
How about if some of my tax dollars go to employing sailors that can actually operate a boat or sub!! Spent 20 years in the military, so I know how arrogant and stupid officers can be!!!
dont these idiots have radar or something, this is bad enough, its when the russians are out there and they dont know it. and we are supposed to trust our armed forces to protect us???
Oops !!
Wow, even the Russians don't run into each other. Explode and sink sure, but run into each other, unheard of. There will probably be openings for two new skippers and/or XO's real soon.
None of you have a fukking clue, if they were "exercising" against each other they had active sensors shut down and were totally passive, especially the Sub. And what`s the best place to try and defeat detection? Under the surface ship, as close to the keel as you dare.
You`ve all watched "Red October" once too often...
So you are saying the boats ran into each other while coasting with their engines stopped, essentially.
Probably under a 5-7 knot bump.
But a bump nonetheless that had to be reported.
Yes, scheisse gelaffen seaborne...
Good thing they were built in American shipyards. They use the good steel.
Oh hell brother half of the cruiser`s construction is really cool stuff and about 9/10th`s of the sub hull is classified...lot`s of titanium and chromium.
BrianPatronie...I follow your logic, but only to a point where ships collide and the Navy feels it has to report it in the news. That my friend ain't the way it is suppose to happen. And when a 10,000 ton ship collides (even slowly) with a submarine (a rated pressure hull) any damage is going to require a good long look before it goes out on patrol. Yes, no one was injured and that's great. Yes, no significant damage was done, and that is also great. No, ships are not suppose to "bump", "touch", or "rub" up against any other ship.
Comment # 51 deleted, death wishy.
Pontifex Maximus and danwill, you are both suspended for a week for violaitng rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
i am suprised this doesnt happen more often. there isnt alot of room to maneuver around in the ocean, and those speedy subs can come flying out of nowhere.
Okay...you are funny, really funny!
HELP WANTED: US Navy urgently in need of two competent officers that can each operate and take responsibility for sea-going vessels without wrecking them.
Ask any republitard... they probably heard it on Fox.
The ships collided because the crews signed union work cards before departing port....
Having served in the Navy for 24 years I have to ask you if you have any idea of what you are posting about? To me you sound like a kool aid swilling far left wing uber liberal progressive dem who would perfer for see the military to be shut down.
Just throwing out a little sarcasm, CWO3.
Matter of fact, served myself from 85-91...
Machinery Repairman 2nd Class, Naval Submarine Support Facility, New London.
F**k you very much for your comment... Sir.
Stereotype much, CWO?...
One ship of the same class, the USS Vincennes, became infamous in 1988 when she shot down Iran Air Flight 655, resulting in 290 civilian fatalities. The captain of the Vincennes, had believed the airliner was an jet fighter on an attack vector, based on reports of (misinterpreted) radar returns.Indeed this class of ships has an outstanding record.
A new war against Iran and maybe new war crimes ?
If RawMoney gets in, I guarantee you...
They need to install AIS transponders on Navy ships and subs. :)
They only cost 200 bucks per unit.