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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new documentary on the tragedy which saw 118 Russian crew die when a nuclear submarine exploded and sank ... the nation's ...

One man who is watching the Kursk submarine drama with particular interest is Englishman Gordon Robertson. A mechanical engineer from London, Robertson has a unique connection with the events ...

(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 ...

Oxygen is being pumped into the Kursk via a bell attached to the submarine deck from a ship on the surface of the Barents Sea, off northwest Russia. Even so, the crew of the Oscar-class cruise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all 118 hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. At 154m long and four ...