As the cruise missile submarine sank in relatively shallow waters that were just 350 feet (108 meters), a total of 23 sailors were able to flee to a rear compartment of the Kursk, and wait for rescue.

What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sinking with 118 crew aboard. Caused by a hydrogen ...

Ukraine's military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while ... The Rostov-on-Don, a Kilo-class attack submarine launched in 2014, sank after it was struck in a missile attack ...

K-219 Disaster: How a Soviet Nuclear Submarine's Explosion Shocked the World The disastrous sinking of the submarine K-219 on Oct. 6, 1986, stands as a testimony to the poor training, design ...

During a visit last week to Iceland's Keflavík airbase on the southwestern tip of the Nordic nation, the U.S.' top ranking military officer, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., said that "we want to be so ...

A notorious Providence scrap metal business that has been in disputes with city and state authorities has finally removed a ...

Ukrainian news outlet Radio Svoboda reported in August 2021 that the vessel will be equipped with Harpoon anti-ship missiles as its primary strike system. Although other systems such as Neptunes were ...

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian man to 25 years in prison for the murder of an army recruitment officer and former submarine commander.

The most recent case involves the apparent sinking of a new class ... experience in 1969 with the submarine Guitarro. Moreover, given Chinese interest in and Soviet experience with auxiliary ...

A US Navy nuclear submarine under construction, the Guitarro (SSN-665), sank in a similar accident in 1969. A failure of communication between two teams at opposite ends of the sub led each to ...