On the twelfth of August 2000, the Russian navy held its most massive naval exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. Due ...
In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed. As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair of training torpedoes.
The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) A Dutch consortium hopes to raise a Russian nuclear submarine and the remaining bodies of its 118-man crew from the seabed in September, 13 months after it exploded and ...
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