Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
K-219 was a Project 667A Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Yankee I) of the Soviet Navy. It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO). K-219 was involved in what has become one of the most controversial submarine incidents during the Cold War on Friday 3 October
K-219 damaged The Yankee-class SSBNs served in the Soviet Navy in three oceans: the Atlantic Ocean , the Pacific Ocean , and the Arctic Ocean beginning in the 1960s. During the 1970s about three Yankee-class were continually on patrol in a so-called "patrol box" in the Atlantic Ocean just east of Bermuda [ 1 ] and off the US Pacific coast .
The U.S. government quickly became aware of K-219’s plight, sending P-3C Orion patrol aircraft to monitor efforts to save the submarine and even offering assistance.But Soviet leadership was ...
Hostile Waters is a British 1997 television film about the loss of the Soviet Navy's K-219, a Yankee I class nuclear ballistic missile sub.The film stars Rutger Hauer as the commander of K-219 and claims to be based on the true story, also described in the 1997 book of the same name.
K-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 Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
The Soviet Union - and by some accounts apparently to this day, the Russian government - claimed that the K-219 collided with Augusta off the coast of Bermuda, and that is what resulted in the sinking of the submarine. [citation needed] The United States Navy has denied this, and - surprisingly - so has Britanov himself.
K. Soviet submarine K-219 This page was last edited on 10 July 2024, at 17:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...