Once hailed as unsinkable, the Kursk became a steel tomb for 118 sailors. This is the story of a nuclear submarine, a deadly ...

The K-141 Kursk Submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 509-foot hull had been placed vertically where it sank, it would have ...

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 had not come into the world easily ... The following day, they set out on in the submarine. Mikhail is babysitting a torpedo that seems to have a very dangerous hydrogen leak.

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 ...

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 ...

Kursk submarine tragedy has its own place in the world navy history. What is the legacy and lessons of that incident? What has changed in the Russian submarine industry and how an Australian ...

MOSCOW, Russia --Bad weather is pushing back the timetable for raising the wreck of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Rough seas have slowed down the progress of divers attaching cables to the ...

The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives Two days after the tragedy the defense ministry Sergei Shoigu described the ...

K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all 118 hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. At 154m long and four ...

One man who is watching the Kursk submarine drama with particular interest is Englishman Gordon Robertson. A mechanical engineer from London, Robertson has a unique connection with the events ...

On Saturday, August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine K‑141 Kursk blew apart during an exercise in the cold Barents Sea ...