I can't see why the MoD should be too embarrased by HMS Vanguard hitting the French sub Le Triomphant somewhere in the Atlantic as the BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt suggests here.
These boats are designed to be stealthy and basically to hide in a hole in the ocean. The fact that the two subs collided basically indicates that their anti-sonar devices worked - perfectly and did what precisely they were designed to do; mercifully no-one was hurt in the incident and there was no nuclear leak.
I cannot see (unless someone was negligent) how any blame at all can be assigned to the captains of either boats.
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