Kursk:New Photos

Thanks Ctirip, clear now. The first link works O.K. but your link doesn’t which is wierd as they look identical!

Thats a depressing sight. 🙁

I bet the photos are very interesting, but the links do not work.:confused:

I did not post any photos, rather I simply provided a translation of the commentary associated with the original post:

http://community.livejournal.com/war…60.html#cutid1

I just checked, and the URL is still active.

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Kursk

As everyone knows, the nuclear-powered missile submarine Kursk, also well known as a Project 949A submarine (quietly called a loaf of French bread), went down while conducting live missile firings in the Barents Sea at a depth of about 100 meters. Below I present a series of photographs taken during an investigation of the submarine after being raised.

I bet the photos are very interesting, but the links do not work.:confused:

Shiver

New photos of the incident(atleast for me).Just stunned me.

P.S. Tomorrow if someone need i will translate the text under the photos and in the comments.

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Kursk

As everyone knows, the nuclear-powered missile submarine Kursk, also well known as a Project 949A submarine (quietly called a loaf of French bread), went down while conducting live missile firings in the Barents Sea at a depth of about 100 meters. Below I present a series of photographs taken during an investigation of the submarine after being raised.

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Mammoet lift barge.

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Submarine in PD-50 floating dry dock.

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General view of the destroyed bow. Bulkhead between 1st and 2nd compartments is located at Frame 22; bulkhead of Compartments 2 and 3 at Frame 43. In reality, the bulkhead at Frame 22 was found at Frame 43; i.e., it was pushed back across an entire compartment. Compartments 2 and 3 were actually compressed into one.

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Bulkhead hatch at Frame 22. The only things left from Frame 43 were fragments of metal located vertically on the pressure hull.

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Exterior view.

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Shredded frames of the outer hull. Upper section of the submarine.

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View – bow to stern. Remains of decks are visible.

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Masts. The thickest is 430mm.

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A large portion has been cleared. The decks are visible. Socket welded connections on bulkheads were ripped off by the explosion.

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Parts of the missiles were ripped away after being struck by flying debris, so they were flooded with foam and cut out along with the tubes for subsequent scrapping.

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Only tail sections and flattened batteries remained from the torpedoes (a total of about 80% exploded). The power of the blast is estimated to have been about 8 kilotons.

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Visible here is how the deck (steel thickness is up to 22mm) buckled. Imagine what happened to the equipment and people.

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View of the submarine in the bow.

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Onboard clock (most likely 3rd Compartment).

I am not including photographs from the remaining compartments, as they do not provide anything of particular interest. All of them were flooded except for the reactor (6th) compartment. I was in the reactor compartment and unmanned section; there was nothing special there; [radioactivity] background level 7-9 was microroentgens.

The crew compartments became blurred (bulkheads made of low-density building wood). It was a shock to find still operating electronic arm watches that showed the time and date at the moment of inspection; i.e., a year after the tragedy, after having remained at a depth of 100 meters.

I should note that the military prosecutor’s office functioned honorably and smartly. They found what is similar to a “black box”. It was not connected to the network during the exercise. So, it was impossible to get anything from it, except for Lyube [music group] recordings (the device was also used for playback).

As a whole, everything was deplorable. The primary cause of the loss of the crew was disorderliness. But this, alas, is characteristic for our fleet, specifically, and for the military, as a whole.

Wow.