Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who ...

Once considered indestructible, the Kursk submarine became a death trap for its crew. What caused the deadly explosion, and why was no rescue possible? Kristi Noem's Publicity Stunt Spoiled ...

It was only three months into his new presidency on August 12 2000 that the nation's prized nuke-equipped sub, Kursk, exploded, making it the deadliest naval incident in post-Soviet Russia.

A submarine-rescue vessel, the USS Skylark (ASR-20), was nearby in case anything went wrong. But there's only so much a surface vessel can do if everything goes wrong.

What You Need to Know: 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 ...

Over the next four days attempts were made to reach the Kursk using submersibles and diving bells, while overly-optimistic official ‘misinformation’ was circulated at home and abroad about the ...

Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk, and Putin’s response, has echoes of yet another earlier “Kursk” crisis: the 2000 sinking of the nuclear submarine that bears the region’s name.

The R-27 Mod 3 missile will play a key role in the K-219's accident. This submarine-launched ballistic missile was first introduced in 1967, the same year as the K-219's launch, and was deployed ...

In this April 23, 2019 photo, a type 094A Jin-class nuclear submarine Long March 10 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy participates in a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary ...

As recently as 2021, a submarine was lost in Indonesia during a training exercise, prompting an international search-and-rescue attempt involving seven different countries.