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Kursk was a Project 949A Antey (Oscar II-class) submarine, twice the length of a 747 jumbo jet, and one of the largest submarines in the Russian Navy.. On the morning of 12 August 2000, Kursk was in the Barents Sea, participating in the "Summer-X" exercise, the first large-scale naval exercise planned by the Russian Navy in more than a decade, and also its first since the dissolution of the ...
List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
Silhouette of an Oscar-II class submarine. K-141 Kursk was a Project 949A class Antey (Russian: Aнтей, meaning Antaeus) submarine of the Oscar class, known as the Oscar II by its NATO reporting name, and was the penultimate submarine of the Oscar II class designed and approved in the Soviet Union. Construction began in 1990 at the Soviet ...
WASHINGTON — Twenty-two years ago, a Russian nuclear submarine sank after being rocked by two explosions during a torpedo test launch gone awry. There were 118 sailors on board the Kursk; most ...
The official Russian government news agency Tass reported Wednesday that the Kazan, a modern nuclear submarine, is capable of “quietly approaching U.S. shores within 50 km and carrying out ...
2 × 16 in (406 mm) tubes aft. K-19 (Russian: К-19) was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit: Projekt-658) class (NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM. The boat was hastily built by the ...
August 3, 2024 at 9:39 AM. The Rostov-on-Don, pictured here in 2022, was previously seriously damaged in an attack last September [Reuters] Ukraine's military says it attacked and destroyed a ...
Russian submarine. Losharik. Project 210, Project 10831[4][5] or AS-31[5][3] (Russian: АС-31), nicknamed Losharik (Russian: Лошарик, IPA: [lɐˈʂarʲɪk]), is a Russian deep-diving nuclear powered submarine. On 1 July 2019, a fire broke out on the vessel while it was taking underwater measurements of the sea floor in Russian ...