80,000-Ton US 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 US 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

On March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton carrier USS Kitty Hawk struck the Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314 in the Sea of Japan. When the carrier reached Subic Bay for repairs, specialists found part of a Soviet propeller blade and pieces of anechoic coating lodged against her underwater hull, handing the US Navy an unintended look at Soviet acoustic stealth materials.