An Antey-class submarine could dive to at least 1,968 feet, reach an impressive underwater speed of 32 knots, and had a crew ...

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 ...

Its two-man crew is housed in its forward ... to be tilted so it can still lock-on to the submarine even if it is lying at an angle (the Kursk is currently lying on the seabed at 60 degrees).

It last happened in 2000, when the Russian submarine the Kursk sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 crew on board. How long can a crew survive submerged? The number of days that a crew can ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...

An earlier version of this article misstated details about the sinking of a Russian submarine. It was named the Kursk; it did not sink at Kursk. How we handle corrections Serge Schmemann joined ...

Lessons from another ‘Kursk’ Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk, and Putin’s response, has echoes of yet another earlier “Kursk” crisis: the 2000 sinking of the nuclear submarine that ...