On the twelfth of August 2000, the Russian navy held its most massive naval exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. Due to a technical error the “unsinkable” Russian submarine, the Kursk, well, ...
On August 12, 2000, the nuclear submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea. The 24,000-ton vessel sank to a depth of 108 meters, trapping 118 sailors ...
The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...