MOSCOW — The Russian navy said Monday that it is scrapping the type of torpedo used on board the doomed nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank in August 2000 after two explosions. A four-month forensic ...
Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...
Horizon Special: What Sank the Kursk? BBC TWO 9.00pm Wednesday 8th August 2001 In August 2000, the Russian submarine, the Kursk, sank with the loss of 118 lives. It was a tragedy which shocked the ...