The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian ...

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, ...

In 2000, Russia’s Kursk submarine, designed to destroy aircraft carriers, suffered a catastrophic torpedo explosion during a ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Sailors huddled in the sunken submarine Kursk struggled ... but deny their vessels were near the Kursk. Other observers have said the sinking most likely was caused by a torpedo ...

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 ... the August 2000 disaster for hours in the stern ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...

The government has not released any official explanation of what caused the disaster ... the theory that the Kursk collided with another vessel, possibly a foreign submarine.

has echoes of yet another earlier “Kursk” crisis: the 2000 sinking of the nuclear submarine that bears the region’s name. The Kursk sank during exercises in the Barents Sea after an ...

Chinese media has also reported that the country's nuclear subs have been given the code name "09." China operates two types of nuclear-powered submarines, the Type 093/A attack submarine and the Type ...

The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed to have been involved ... inquiry would later conclude that no one was to blame for the disaster, which it said was caused by a faulty torpedo.

Based on a real story, the film recounts the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster. It tells the story of the Russian nuclear submarine as it's sinking to the bottom of the Barents Sea and the ...