Red Sparrow / Kursk [2DVD] (English audio. English subtitles)

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In addition, Kuznetsov says, a sonar operator aboard the battle cruiser Pyotr Veliky identified and reported an explosion at 11:28 a.m. on August 12. He located the explosion at the exact position where the Kursk was known to be. Throughout the Cold War, there had been a number of tragic accidents involving Soviet submarines due to lax safety measures. However, since 2000, the Russian Navy has had its own share of submarine disasters. The first one was also the worst when in August 2000 the nuclear-powered Kursk sank in the Barents Sea due to an explosion in its torpedo room, which killed all 118 of its crew. But 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. And what they have discovered is deeply embarrassing for the Russian navy's high command.

It was this fire that set off the other torpedos and warheads, and even the Kursk could not withstand such a massive explosion. A Time to Die (2002, ISBN 0609610007), an investigative book on the events, was

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K-141 Kursk ( Russian: Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»), transl. Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka "Kursk" (APL "Kursk"), meaning "Atomic-powered submarine Kursk") was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy. On 12 August 2000, K-141 Kursk was lost when it sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 personnel on board. Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo. [9] The outer hull was constructed using 8mm (0.3in) steel plate covered by up to 80mm (3in) of rubber, which minimised other submarines' or surface On Monday 14 August, Fleet Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov stated the accident had been caused by a serious collision with a NATO submarine, [30] although he gave no evidence to support his statement. [20] Senior commanders of the Russian Navy repeated this account for more than two years after the disaster. Many who wished for continued poor relations between Russia and the West supported this scenario. [20] The Oscar IIs were big because they carried big missiles. Each submarine carried 24 P-700 Granit missiles, which themselves were the size of a small plane—33 feet long and weighing 15,400 pounds each. The missiles had a top speed of Mach 1.6, a range of 388 miles, and used the now-defunct Legenda satellite targeting system to home in on their aircraft carrier targets. A Granit could carry a 1,653-pound conventional high-explosive warhead (enough to damage a carrier) or a 500-kiloton warhead (enough to vaporize an aircraft carrier with a single hit).

Would the families of the 118 sailors who died in the disaster ever find it possible to forgive the men responsible for allowing such notoriously unstable weapons on board?

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By the time Western divers opened the hatch, the submarine was fully flooded and no one was left alive. He was obligated to listen to the experts and the reports of the commanders and the reports of the naval command. He was obligated to do all this," Kuznetsov says. "And he did not."

The fifth compartment, in addition to the reactors, contained equipment that automatically recorded the operating activity of the boat. Twenty-two recordings were analysed by specialists from the Saint Petersburg Center of Speech Technologies. They discovered that the system had been turned off the day of the accident, in violation of procedure. [82] Rescue buoy disabled [ edit ]

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Our main task today is to remember our heroes, remember the commander, and remember the crew. We want all our residents, and all Russians, to once again return to those events,” St. Petersburg official Aleksandr Rzhanenkov told a press conference on August 10. Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi [1] and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors. Two minutes and 14 seconds after the first explosion in the torpedo compartment, [15] the fire set off a second explosion of five to seven combat-ready torpedo warheads. Acoustic data from Pyotr Velikiy were later analysed and found to indicate an explosion of about seven torpedo warheads in rapid succession. [5] The Type 65 "Kit" torpedo carries a large 450kg (990lb) warhead. [74]

It was revealing that the US Coast Guard yesterday declined to offer even the outline of a technical solution.

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Rescue divers did not attempt to tap on the hull to signal potential survivors acoustically. [34] However, video evidence seems to suggest otherwise, as it shows Norwegian divers tapping on the aft rescue hatch while the rescue part of the operation was still underway. [36] A stainless steel pipe carrying the HTP to the engine had burst and the original inquiry had found that the torpedo had been accidentally started before it had been fired. These facts combined to explain why the explosion had taken place.