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Originally Posted by ollie1983
One of the other very risky things they used to do was trail other NATO boats very closely and then report to high command that they had managed it. The message would then be passed to the other country. The main risk from this was basically running into the opposing friendly sub. I don't doubt for a second this still goes on. I think a British Sub scraped a Frenchie not long ago playing games. Of course, around the North Sea and English channel the water isn't all that deep so detecting each other a bit more straight-forward than in the open ocean.
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My dad's sub hit a Russian sub in the 80's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sceptre_(S104)