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 ...

PUTIN’S submarine branded a potential “floating bomb” is creeping home through the English Channel under the close watch of ...

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 ...

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

MURMANSK, Russia - Families of the 118 men killed when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea gathered in a rainy, northern Russian port Saturday for a grim pilgrimage to the doomed ...

MOSCOW (AP) A top Russian official claimed Sunday that sounds initially called distress signals from the crew of the sunken submarine Kursk instead came from a different vessel in the area. Deputy ...

While Pentagon and U.S. Navy officials have been sounding the alarm about a resurgent Russian Navy, the Defense Department’s concerns might be somewhat overblown. Though analysts vary in their ...