80,000-Ton Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Hit a Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Moving at 15 Knots: Parts of the Submarine Stuck to the Carrier’s Hull

80,000-Ton Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Hit a Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Moving at 15 Knots: Parts of the Submarine Stuck to the Carrier’s Hull

At 10:07 p.m. on March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, making 15 knots through the Sea of Japan during Team Spirit 84, struck Soviet Victor I-class nuclear attack submarine K-314 after the 5,200-ton boat lost track of the carrier group it had shadowed for a week and surfaced into its path. Nobody was hurt; the carrier took seawater into an aviation-fuel tank and kept operating, K-314 lost propulsion and was towed to Cha…