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Originally Posted by Vitesse
Thanks TLAM Strike for the URL advice.
I'd always understood that the Kursk was sunk by internal torpedo detonation. I take it that is the official version? IIRC, similar designs had been dropped in the west because of hot run accidents.
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The massive damage seen in the photo is clearly the result of the detonation of one or more torpedoes inside the submarine. Not an external explosion, nor water pressure (the submarine sunk in 110m of water)
Whatever caused it IS the true matter of the debate.
An explosion of a "renegade torpedo" launched by mistake by a nearby vessel? A hard collision with the seafloor triggering a premature explosion of one of the warheads? A leak in the hydrogen peroxide tanks of one of the torpedoes? Sabotage? Incompetence? Maybe the truth will be never known.