The K-141 Kursk submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 155-metre hull were to be placed vertically at the spot where it sank, it would have stuck out above the water's surface like a 14-storey ...

The oceans hide mobile, invisible, and lethal fortresses: the largest submarines in the world. With capabilities that can ...

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 ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

The Kursk had not come into the world easily ... The following day, they set out on in the submarine. Mikhail is babysitting a torpedo that seems to have a very dangerous hydrogen leak.

The commander of the Russian Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, has been fired for making "serious mistakes" in connection with the sinking of the Kursk submarine 16 months ago, Interfax ...

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.

Kursk submarine tragedy has its own place in the world navy history. What is the legacy and lessons of that incident? What has changed in the Russian submarine industry and how an Australian ...

One of the first stories I ever reported on in Russia was a submarine disaster. In August 2000, two explosions sent the 17,000 tonne nuclear-powered Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea and took ...

Beginning with Presidents Clinton and Bush in the early 2000s, the U.S. response to the Kremlin’s malign activities has all ...