The Kursk's commanders and most of the crew in the front compartments were killed as two blasts 135 seconds apart sent the mighty submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea, Ustinov told The ...
The K-141 Kursk Submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 509-foot hull had been placed vertically where it sank, it would have ...
The K-141 Kursk submarine K-141 Kursk was part of an 11-sub series of Project 949A Antey vessels, known by NATO as Oscar II. These are large, nuclear-powered oceanic submarines.
The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives Two days after the tragedy the defense ministry Sergei Shoigu described the ...
Kursk submarine tragedy has its own place in the world navy history. What is the legacy and lessons of that incident? What has changed in the Russian submarine industry and how an Australian ...