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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 ...
K-141 Kursk (Russian: Курск) [note 1] was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy. On 12 August 2000, K-141 Kursk was lost when it sank in the Barents Sea , killing all 118 personnel on board.
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...
The Kursk went down shortly before noon on Aug. 12, likely because of a hydrogen peroxide leak during the launch of a test torpedo that caused a pair of explosions. After the second, much larger ...
Fanis Ishmuratov was a 26-year-old turbine technician when he died aboard the submarine Kursk, which sank in 2000. Last week it was reported that his 25-year-old son, Danis, a Russian soldier, had ...
This category is for articles about the sinking of the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk in the Barents Sea in 2000. Pages in category "Kursk submarine disaster" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
A search is ongoing for the five missing passengers somewhere in the vicinity of the Titanic wreckage. ... K-141 Kursk. The Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine from 1995.
The first nuclear submarine lost at sea, Thresher was also the third of four submarines lost with more than 100 people aboard, the others being the French Surcouf, sinking with 130 personnel in 1942, USS Argonaut, lost with 102 aboard in 1943, and Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000.