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Originally Posted by Vitesse
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The main argument against the american torpedo theory is that Russia wouln't have kept its mouth shut... unless a big, big compensation was offered. Back in 2000 Russia was cash strapped, so the government might have decided to trade their silence on the true cause of the Kursk disaster in exchange for a big sum of money. As for why a US submarine observing another nation "wargame" decided to crash the party, that's the real incongruence of this theory.
But there's another theory: the torpedo which sank the Kursk was Russian. The boat was taking part in a joint naval exercise: this is no secret. By mistake a "fire and forget" anti submarine torpedo was launched with a live warhead and it did what it was designed to do: it sank the first submarine that happened to pass nearby! As for why the Russian navy kept this incident a secret... well it's better to blame some fire in the torpedo compartment due to poor maintenance or malfunctioning equipment (aka "we need some more funds, we cannot allow our boys to die") that admit that a incompetent moron high in the command chain ordered one of its own subs to be sunk.
Both theories have a certain appeal but lack solid evidence.