The Daily Mail reported that the British Navy ship HMS Northumberland crashed into a Russian launched launched launched ship in the North Atlantic ice sheet in late 2020.
The collision - believed to be an accident - was filmed by Channel 5's film crew while filming for the program "Warship: Life At Sea", broadcast at 9pm on January 3.
In the video, a crew member can be heard screaming, "What the hell did I just stab into?"
The collision caused significant damage to sonar equipment and forced the British ship to cancel its mission and return to the base. Sonar is a technique that uses sound transmission to find a way to move, communicate or detect other objects on the surface, underwater or underwater.
This is believed to be the first collision between Russian Navy and British Royal ships since the Cold War.
The Russian ship is hiding 320km north of Scotland as the British Navy is searching for it. The UK is concerned that Russian subspects will cut undersea cables, affecting the internet and communications in the UK.
The British Navy's Type 23 ship deployed a patch Sonar - a cable wrapped in a listener - to search for a foreign Submarine.
But in the "one-of-a-kind incident", the Russian ship crashed into a sonar cable being pulled behind the British ship.
A British Navy source said the ship's sonar equipment was damaged and unusable, while the Russian immediately engaged the damage in the collision.
The Royal Navy said it had tracked nine Russian warships around the UK in just two weeks in December 2020.
Tom Sharpe, former captain of the Royal Navy ship HMS St Albans, asked: " Was it an accident or intentional? ", noting that "Russia's threat to British underwater communications is real, right in front of our homes and is increasing."
A spokesperson for the UK Ministry of National Defense stressed that the Royal Navy regularly monitors foreign vessels and launched launched launched launched by the UK to ensure the UK's defense capabilities."
The Russian Embassy in London has not commented.
