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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips
My theory is, the boat was rushed to sea when it clearly wasnt ready, and substandard ex-soviet torpedoes malfunctioned and exploded in the bow, killing everyone in the first few compartments and sealing others in the aft.
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Actually, the Kursk had been around for awhile. The problem was w/ the torpedo. The Russians needed the long range capability for their 65cms, so they could not go for a battery design. Don't know why they didn't try for Otto-fuel type monopropellant, but Soviet naval designers are a wierd mix of innovative and conservative.
But honestly I won't put it past the Americans to have done what the conspiracy theorists said (collide and shoot torps to cover their escape, thus INDUCING the accident).