Kursk was one of four Oscar-II class nuclear-powered multipurpose submarines sailing for the Northern Fleet. After cutting up the submarine to scrap metals, the reactor compartment is now stored in Saida Bay, while the sail became a memorial in Murmansk. The wreak of Kursk was raised from the seafloor in 2002. That lesson costed Russia most of its press freedom. Putin learned something about live TV-broadcast that day in Vidyayevo. When he first appeared in Vidyayevo, the homeport of Kursk on the Kola Peninsula, the president was bashed for his alleged mishandling of the disaster. Putin himself chose not to return from his summer residence by the Black Sea before it became clear that there were no survivors. ![]() Seven days after the sinking, Norwegian divers finally were able to open the rear hatch. The following Russian, Norwegian, British rescue operation became ad-hoc, learning by doing while fighting against the clock. When it became clear that their mini-rescue submarine was not able to operate properly, assistance from Norway and Great Britain was accepted. First, the Russian Northern fleet didn’t want any rescue assistance from abroad. She sank northeast of Murmansk in the Barents Sea after a torpedo explosions onboard.įirst 48 hours later, in the morning on August 14th, the first news about the ill-fated submarine was released. Kursk never made it to the Mediterranean. Kursk – the Oscar-II class submarine carrying cruise-missiles and torpedoes, was supposed to have a special role first to participate in the August Barents Sea exercise thereafter to sail to the Mediterranean to show the world that the Russian navy no longer stays in port. ADVERTISEMENTįollowing the April instructions of the president, the Northern fleet started to prepare for the largest naval exercise in years. Photos: KremlinĪlso, the president made clear Russian submarines again should sail the world’s oceans, after mainly staying in their ports during the 90ties. He spent the night onboard, watched the launching of a Sineva intercontinental missile and praised the submarine fleet as the mainstay of Russia’s nuclear deterrent.Īpril 2000: Putin went out to the exercise area in the Barents Sea where he was aboard the strategic missile submarines Karelia and Borisoglebsk. Shortly after, on April 6, Putin went to the Northern fleet’s main base Severomorsk where he embarked the strategic nuclear-powered missiles submarine Karelia and set off for the Barents Sea. ![]() Acting President Vladimir Putin won the 2000 Presidential election on March 26. None of the 116 crew members and two weapons experts onboard survived. The entire world could for two weeks in August 2000 watch live on TV how the one rescue effort followed by the other failed. But a failed launch of a torpedo instead proved the state of the ill-fated nuclear submarine force.Īugbecame the saddest day in the modern history of the Northern Fleet. Recap: It was the first major Northern Fleet exercise in more than ten years, supposed to show the world how Russia’s post-Soviet navy was still capable of flashing muscles, at least in home-waters.
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