Royal Navy Submarine Breaks Through Ice During Arctic Exercise With US Sailors

A British Royal Navy submarine broke through ice to surface in the Arctic Ocean, north of America, as part of Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018, a five-week Navy exercise to assess its operational readiness and increase experience in the region.

The HMS Trenchant a hunter-killer submarine, joined two US submarines, the USS Connecticut and USS Hartford for the drills. The Royal Navy announced on April 19 that the three submarines had broken through the “ice of the North Pole”, bringing the exercise to an end.

This video, released on April 27, was described as being from March 21. Credit: DVids/CPO Darryl Wood via Storyful