for a start kursk is not an SSN she is classified as SSGN (cruise missile submarine)
secondly theres no way she could have been involved ina collission siesmic evidence states that
a collission with a western submarine would have been serious if not fatal for the western boat at the time of the accident kursk was moving close to 20 knots if any vessel hit kursk im pretty sure it be the wester navy launching the rescue mission.
kursk wieghs 24,000 tonnes that 8000tonnes more than an ohio so thats like 2 los angeles and an ohio put together and you still dont get the total wieght.
any submarine western that is came into contact with kursk at that speed would have been flattend ie seriously damaged and would have had to surface right inside the russian battle group (suicidal)
we would have know immediatly if a western boat had been involvolved in sinking kursk the russians would have borded and ceased the western submarine and if the western crew resisted the sub would have been sunk
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(standing orders states any forign vessel monitering exercises or such can be borded if it has cause an accident or serious damage or killed or fired a torpedo at another vessel it goes on to say if during bording the crew resists then all units are cleard to open fire)
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with 16 ASW ships and a air craft carrier full of ASW helicopters and cruisers destroyers ect it be total suicide
as for collission jamming torpedo into tube i think not the highest toredo tube on the sub is some 10 feet from where the main blast took place (torpedo in lower tube caused disaster probly from tube number 3 533cm)
kursk was designed to take serious damage and still survive she was designed to take a direct hit with two compartments flooded and serious hull damage and yet still come home so a collission with this submarine would probly do extencive damage but nothing as serious enough to sink her
according to reports and my big red file thats jam packed with things on the kursk (about 700 pages worth) the only senario that fits is the one of a torpedo explosion onboard
as for ramming another sub then opening the outer door is total bolla*s you would never shoot a torpedo at point blank 1) wouldnt enable 2) you'd kill yourself