An Antey-class submarine could dive to at least 1,968 feet, reach an impressive underwater speed of 32 knots, and had a crew ...

What You Need to Know: The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian history. -The nuclear-powered Oscar II-class submarine ...

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In fact, it was the first nuclear submarine class the Soviet Navy ever procured ... Regardless of what happened to the Kursk in 2000, the fact remains that the loss of K-159 reinforced the ...

A Russian diver entered the Kursk nuclear submarine for the first time Wednesday but failed to find any of the 118 sailors who died when the vessel sank in August, a top navy commander said.

In the absence of a large-scale conflict for the submarine to display its qualities, the Kursk tragedy remains one of the main events for which the Oscar II class is known. In August 2000 ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...

The much-delayed operation to raise the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk was ready to begin late Sunday after the Dutch firm in charge said the final cables were in place to hoist the vessel ...

The first advanced version of the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Project 955A Borei-class (North Wind ... couldn’t conduct its gamble into Kursk Region without Western support ...

The Krasnoyarsk is the fourth multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine in the Yasen-class series (Project 885 ... Pentagon chief describes incursion into Kursk as Kiev’s ‘strategic mistake ...

A growing consensus among Asia analysts in Washington posits that China is readying for a war with the U.S. over Taiwan by 2027.