The Kursk's commanders and most of the crew in the front compartments were killed as two blasts 135 seconds apart sent the mighty submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea, Ustinov told The ...

The Russian Navy was carrying out exercises, and one of its submarines, the Kursk, had had a terrible accident. A missile it was carrying malfunctioned and exploded in the torpedo bay, setting off ...

The submarine, the Kursk, foundered on Sunday with 118 crewmen on board, Russian officials say. "Of course, my heart was beating when I took these pictures," Anders Loberg, who shot the exclusive ...

(TIME.com Europe) -- Russian divers working from the Norwegian offshore platform Regalia in the Barents Sea, retrieved four bodies from the Kursk nuclear submarine that sank in August. A hand ...

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 tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives Two days after the tragedy the defense ministry Sergei Shoigu described the ...

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 ...

In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed. As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair of training torpedoes.