On August 12, 2000, two explosions shook the Barents Sea, marking the beginning of a tragic disaster for the Russian submarine Kursk. The Oscar-class submarine, designed to carry cruise missiles, ...

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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 ...

Fourteen units were produced in the 80s and 90s based on design plans that were developed ... of Project 949A was the ...

What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, killing all 118 crew members. The tragedy ...

OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- The team of Norwegian divers who managed to enter the stricken Kursk submarine called off their operation on Tuesday -- at least for the time being. Officials at Stolt ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Sailors huddled in the sunken submarine Kursk struggled against carbon monoxide from a fire, according to a second note found on one of the crewmen's bodies, a Russian government ...

Or, as another member of the team put it, Russia will never be able to destroy Ukraine’s decision-making center, “because the ...

His designs include the Kursk nuclear submarine. Igor Spassky, Hero of Russia, General Designer of about 200 Soviet and Russian submarines, former head of the Rubin Design Bureau, has died at the age ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...

Leading Experimental Design Engineer of the Nerpa Ship Repair ... the nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, the large sea transport ship Yauza and the nuclear-powered submarine Vepr.