1/22/2024 0 Comments Kursk submarine song![]() When the Kursk smashed into the ocean floor on 12 August last year, stories quickly emerged about the presence on board of torpedos containing highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide liquid. ![]() And what they have discovered is deeply embarrassing for the Russian navy's high command. More credible was the theory being pushed until recently by senior officers in the Russian navy that the Kursk had collided with a British or American submarine spying on the manoeuvres in the Barents Sea.īut now British torpedo experts and seismologists working on the case believe they have solved the mystery of the Kursk by drawing on secret government documents about a near-forgotten submarine accident off the coast of Portland on the southern coast of England. It seemed inconceivable that the double hull and nine water-tight compartments of the submarine could have been punctured by anything but the most violent explosion.Įntire websites have been devoted to the theory that something went wrong with tests on a top-secret new ultra high-speed torpedo, Shkval (Squall), said to be unstoppable by Nato technology.īut there is no evidence that there were any Shkval torpedos on board, and some experts doubt their very existence. At first it was suggested that the submarine may have hit by an old World War II mine or been struck by friendly fire from the naval exercises.īut these explanations seemed to contradict Russian claims about the Kursk's impregnability. The sinking of the Kursk was a conspiracy theorist's dream, with some of the wilder explanations emerging from the highest levels of the Russian naval command. Looking back, those scenes now seem all the more cruel as it must have been clear to the navy from the start there was never any hope of rescuing the crew. For example, the men who served aboard the Kursk sometimes went months without getting a paycheck.All 118 crewmen lost their lives in the disaster: a devastating blow to Russian military pride and the reputation of the recently elected President Vladimir Putin, who refused to cut short his holiday to deal with the crisis.įew will forget the scenes of desperate relatives, waiting at the quayside for news of the sailors, growing ever more furious at the official smokescreen of disinformation. Today's rusting Russian navy is a shadow of its former glory when the Soviet Union was a true superpower. Fast, stealthy and technologically complex, the Kursk was the pride of the cash-starved post-Soviet sea force. ![]() ![]() The Kursk was not just any Russian submarine. In his new book, A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy, Moore details the poor decisions and political bungling that led to the death of 118 sailors. 12, 2000, two explosions ripped through the Russian submarine Kursk, and the mammoth ship quickly sank to the bottom in more than 350 feet of water.īritish journalist Robert Moore - an award-winning broadcaster who covered the collapse of the former Soviet Union for the ITN television network - tells NPR's Robert Siegel that the disaster was an accident waiting to happen. Cover of 'A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy' (Crown Publishing: ISBN 0609610007)ĭuring naval exercises in the frigid Barents Sea on Aug.
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