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carried a 450 kg (990 lb) warhead powerful enough to sink an aircraft carrier. Both missiles and torpedoes could be equipped with nuclear warheads. She was 9.1 m (30 ft) longer than the preceding Oscar I-class of submarines. The senior officers had individual cabins and the entire
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Ryazantsev differed with the government's official conclusion. He cited inadequate training, poor maintenance, and incomplete inspections that caused the crew to mishandle the weapon. During the examination of the wrecked sub, investigators recovered a partially burned copy of
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and chemically release oxygen during an emergency. However, the cartridge became contaminated with sea water and the resulting chemical reaction caused a flash fire which consumed the available oxygen. The investigation showed that some men temporarily survived the fire by plunging under water, as
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used as propellant for the torpedo, seeped through a faulty weld in the torpedo casing. When HTP comes into contact with a catalyst, it rapidly expands by a factor of 5000, generating vast quantities of steam and oxygen. The pressure produced by the expanding HTP ruptured the kerosene fuel tank in
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in the bow: four 533 mm (21 in) and four 650 mm (26 in). The Granit missiles with a range of 550 km (340 mi), were capable of supersonic flight at altitudes over 20 km (12 mi). They were designed to swarm enemy vessels and intelligently choose individual
626:. A second explosion 135 seconds after the initial event was equivalent to 3-7 tons of TNT. The explosions blew a large hole in the hull and caused the first three compartments of the submarine to collapse, killing or incapacitating all but 23 of the 118 personnel on board.
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incompetent. A year later he said, "I probably should have returned to Moscow, but nothing would have changed. I had the same level of communication both in Sochi and in Moscow, but from a PR point of view I could have demonstrated some special eagerness to return."
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the safety instructions for loading HTP torpedoes, but the instructions were for a significantly different type of torpedo and failed to include essential steps for testing an air valve. The 7th
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s crew had no experience with HTP-powered torpedoes and had not been trained in handling or firing HTP-powered torpedoes. Due to their inexperience and lack of training, compounded by incomplete inspections and oversight, and because the
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a 2004 art work by
Finnish sculptor Markus Copper. The work consists of eight live size diver figures hanging from a steel frame and slowly knocking a steel wall with monkey wrenches. The action is launched by a glowing electronic
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targets which terminated with a dive onto the target. The torpedo tubes could be used to launch either torpedoes or anti-ship missiles with a range of 50 km (31 mi). Her weapons included 18
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Russian Navy in more than a decade, on 10 August 2000. It included 30 ships including the fleet's flagship
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522:, four attack submarines, and a flotilla of smaller ships. The crew had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and had been recognized as the best submarine crew in the
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Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military
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Dikkenberg, John (19 October 2001). "Raising the Kursk".
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and launched in 1994, before being commissioned by the
1037:– play about the trapped survivors, By Sasha Janowicz.
1748:– BBC News, 12 August 2001 Retrieved on 8 August 2007
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1493:. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishers. p. 140.
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1835:"Russian admiral: Kursk disaster caused by NATO sub"
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A Time to Die–The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
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2233:Risks and hazards during the recovery of the
1872:"Final report blames fuel for Kursk disaster"
1599:Missouri University of Science and Technology
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2487:List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes
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2482:List of Soviet and Russian submarines
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909:Rear Admiral Mian Zahir Shah (2005)
347:. Construction began in 1990 at the
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1925:Wines, Michael (27 February 2001).
1848:Tony DiGiulian (19 November 2008).
1461:"Russian Sub Has 'Terrifying Hole'"
911:Sea Phoenix: A True Submarine Story
1622:"'Terrifying Hole' in Russian Sub"
1589:Rogers, J. David; Koper, Keith D.
1358:. 11 February 2014. Archived from
1207:"Marine Nuclear Power:1939 – 2018"
1098:List of Russian military accidents
708:Submarine wreck after the disaster
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483:During her five years of service,
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1489:Brannon, Robert (13 April 2009).
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1547:U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
1491:Russian civil-military Relations
1463:. 18 August 2000. Archived from
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987:"Angel 141 (Russian: Ангел 141)"
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1232:""Курск": 15 лет со дня гибели"
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1049:from the British point of view.
983:, a folk song about the tragedy
680:Putin interview on the tragedy
526:. While it was on an exercise,
383:on December 30, as part of the
339:, known as the Oscar II by its
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1768:, URL visited 12 February 2012
1435:Underwood, Lamar, ed. (2005).
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2847:Shipwrecks in the Barents Sea
2023:"Do Bombs Cause Earthquakes?"
1807:Kudrik, Igor (3 March 2003).
1745:Spectre of Kursk haunts Putin
1559:Marshall, Geoff (July 2008),
1422:. Retrieved on 8 August 2007.
425:The outer hull, made of high-
2872:Warships lost with all hands
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176:154.0 m (505.2 ft)
1977:Peter Davidson; Huw Jones;
1532:. "A Mystery In The Deep."
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871:. Crown Publishers NY, NY.
843:. Simon & Schuster UK.
841:Kursk: Russia's Lost Pride
712:A consortium formed by the
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503:Naval exercise and disaster
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288:. On 12 August 2000, K-141
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2103:"The death of the "Kursk""
2076:"The death of the "Kursk""
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857:. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo.
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1300:Barany, Zoltan (2007).
1045:– a play by playwright
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1571:on 16 February 2011
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1362:on 22 February 2014
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244:(bow); 24 torpedoes
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2003:on 6 February 2012
1953:"Nightmare at Sea"
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