I was working in he wheel well of and A-6E Intruder the evening of this event. There was a heavy thump and most of us thought we hit a large whale or something. Suddenly the ship made a hard starboard turn and I recall having to hang onto the hardware in the wheel well to keep from falling. The ship was leaning heavily into her turn. Then we heard the screeching of metal against metal and thought we had perhaps collided with another ship or something. Several of my shipmates thought that they had seen antennas and a periscope bounce past the hangar bay doors on he Port side of the ship. We were making preparations to pull along side a supply ship to give the subs that we were tracking the impression that we were readying our ship to take on supplies. However, from what the skipper told us later, it was a ruse that was designed to throw off the subs we were tracking. There were a total of 3 subs in the Russian squadron that were shadowing our group of ships. The plan was to pull along side the supply ship and then have another larger Merchant Marine vessel slide into our place as we peeled of the the south as a fast run. This maneuvering must have cause some confusion for the Russian Sub Commander because he surfaced to a peek at what was going on just as we peeled off the the south and we ran right over their ship. The incident caused the Kitty Hawk to sustain a relatively small amount of damage but the Russian Sub was dead at sea for several days until a rescue ship was deployed to tow the sub to the port of Vladiovstock in Russia. Just north of Japan. Basically they blinked and got bit. Our F-14 Tomcats with T.A.R.P.S. photo equipment flew several recon missions over the sub and it appeared to not be in any distress but it was also not running under its own power. In hindsight, every ship I've ever been on has run over something or another. Maybe I'm bad luck on ships! Sure did love being on them though. While deployed on USS Ranger we tackled a Chinese tanker one time, we had an unrep collision that caused minor damage to our great ship Ranger, on USS Kitty Hawk we had the whole submarine think with the Rushkies and on the USS Enterprise we ran over an under water mountain and tore a large whole in our hull. The ship listed to port pretty heavy on that one but we just flooded the voids on the opposite side and repositioned some aircraft to take up the slack until the voids were balanced and then stayed at sea for another 30 days like nothing ever happened.