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The Disaster of Kursk - Documentary
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Published on Feb 14, 2017
K-141 Kursk (full Russian name Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»), Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka 'Kursk' (APL 'Kursk'), meaning 'Nuclear-powered submarine Kursk') was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Russian Navy which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. It was a Project 949A Антей (Antey, Antaeus; NATO reporting name 'Oscar II') submarine.
It was named after the Russian city of Kursk, around which the Battle of Kursk took place in 1943. One of the first vessels completed after the end of the Soviet Union, it was commissioned into the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.
Notwithstanding the navy's oft-stated position that a collision with a foreign vessel had triggered the event, a report issued by the government attributed the disaster to a torpedo explosion caused when high-test peroxide (HTP), a form of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide, leaked from a faulty weld in the torpedo's casing.[3][10][24] The report found that the initial explosion destroyed the torpedo room compartment and killed everyone in the first compartment.[25][26] The blast entered the second and perhaps the third and fourth compartments through an air conditioning vent. All of the 36 men in the command post located in the second compartment were immediately incapacitated by the blast wave and possibly killed.[27] The first explosion caused a fire that raised the temperature of the compartment to more than 2,700 °C (4,890 °F).[28] The heat triggered the warheads of between five and seven additional torpedoes to detonate, creating an explosion equivalent to 2-3 tons of TNT[29] that was measured 4.2 on the Richter magnitude scale on seismographs across Europe[30] and was detected as far away as Alaska.
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