British Submarine Lost Secret Sensor to Soviet Typhoon on Christmas Eve

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HMS Splendid lost its towed array to a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine on Christmas Eve 1986 in the Barents Sea. This British nuclear submarine encounter revealed how thermal wake detection changed Cold War submarine warfare, ending decades of acoustic stealth doctrine in Arctic operations.

RESOURCES

1. NavSource Naval History - HMS Splendid (S106) Swiftsure-class SSN operational history and technical specifications

2. UK Parliamentary Records - Questions from Tam Dalyell MP and Martin J. O'Neill MP regarding December 1986 towed array incident

3. "Hunter Killers: The Royal Navy and the Silent War at Sea" by Iain Ballantyne - British submarine Cold War operations

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