The recent launch of Russia’s new hypersonic-armed submarine, Perm, serves as a stark reminder of the 2000 Kursk disaster.

On the twelfth of August 2000, the Russian navy held its most massive naval exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. Due to a technical error the “unsinkable” Russian submarine, the Kursk, well, ...

The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...

Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

Novorossiysk, a Russian nuclear submarine, is reportedly facing a critical safety hazard in the Mediterranean Sea after ...

A Russian submarine with nuclear capability has reportedly suffered a “serious accident ” in the Mediterranean Sea. The ...

A top Russian official said Monday that the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk would be raised in a three-month operation, tentatively set to begin in late July. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who ...

MOSCOW (AP) Russia s top prosecutor led investigators Tuesday onto the deck of the nuclear submarine Kursk, hoping to find new clues to what caused the vessel to explode and sink more than a year ago.

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Pyongyang appears to have received "various technologies" from Moscow for the development of submarines, amid their alliance.