Russia’s Oscar II-class (Project 949A Antey) nuclear-powered submarines, originally designed as Cold War “carrier killers,” ...

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 ...

On August 12, 2000, during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the Russian Oscar II-class Kursk submarine mysteriously vanished. Moments after preparing to fire dummy torpedoes at the Admiral ...

Budget cuts have meant that he and his colleagues have not received their pay in months, but the submariners of the Oscar II-class submarine Kursk still head out into deep waters. However, the ...

The USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the first nuclear attack submarine of its class. In 1963, it conducted a series of deep-dive tests off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, testing its rated depth ...

Perhaps the most recognizable Oscar II-class submarine is the Kursk. In August 2000, this ship sank in the Barents Sea during Russia’s first major naval exercise in more than a decade, killing ...

Over two decades ago, in the icy depths of the Barents Sea off the Arctic coast of Russia, the Russian Oscar-class submarine Kursk met a harrowing end. On August 12-13, 2000, during a naval exercise ...

On August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk tragically sank during naval exercises in the Barents Sea, claiming the lives of all 118 sailors on board. This incident, which has been ...

What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, ... Russia’s Oscar II-class submarines, ...

Oscar class submarines, given the designation "Project 949" by the Russian military, were initially Soviet nuclear-powered vessels designed to combat NATO carriers with their fearsome 10.5-meter ...

Oscar II Kursk: this is a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000. It was caused by the detonation of half a dozen torpedoes, which caused a second explosion equivalent to between 3 ...