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 ...

The K-141 Kursk submarine K-141 Kursk was part of an 11-sub series of Project 949A Antey vessels, known by NATO as Oscar II. These are large, nuclear-powered oceanic submarines.

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.

Key Kursk Facts The outer hull of the Oscar II submarine was made of high-nickel, high-chrome content stainless steel that was .33 inches (8.5mm) thick. It had exceptionally good resistance to ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s movie Kursk was never going to have a happy ... The following day, they set out on in the submarine. Mikhail is babysitting a torpedo that seems to have a very dangerous ...

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 ...