How many times did I tell you they cut holes in that hull? Finally someone seems to have noticed it. And I’m still waiting for PROOF White CloUd.

yeah i know, but the sonar on Akson-2 was the one that should have come into Sierra III, all five of them were scrapped on the stocks. They seem to have been quite sure of their case, building five of them at once…
And yes Austin, spherical Bow sonar is idd something like a 3D radar underwater, although of course it uses sound.

Images of SierraIII ? Looks like this one still has a “chin” mounted cilindrical sonar and tubes on top of it…

Did you ever hear of a guy called Koleshnikov? He did write a letter…. And INVESTIGATION allows for many answers. And even it wasn’t that torpedo, something I don’t believe myself, then it still wasn’t any of the others mentioned in your articles as these can all be contradicted on easy ways. Gary was right on the aiming part.

You really don’t get it do you? Why didn’t they show pictures of the torpedo room? Answer= very simple, there was no torpedo room left to show. The explanation they give is a plausible one, but probably not true. On the other hand, other explanations seen regularily on the net are neither plausible nor true. No other Navy had anything to do with this.
Would a silly LA class sub be able to sink a submarine three times as large as it self by merely hitting it with its sail? no.
An LA coming into Norway? I doubt it, guess your picture was one from Gibraltar as there a USN LA class hit a container vessel’s keel with its sail. I think it was USS Greenville once again. This kind of things happens regularily doesn’t necessarily have to do with Kursk or any other Navy involved. As for the exercise, would you honestly try to send ANY SSN into a fleet which comprises some specialised ASW vessels known to be capable of detecting an Akula pretty easily, a nuclear cruiser and an aircraftcarrier. And added to this bunch a troop of nuclear submarines…. I don’t think ANY nation would try that.

“Russia” doesn’t give one **** about 100 lifes nor about 200. If there is any other way to force them to accept they’d do it too, no money involved.
As for the torpedo, a Mk48 is a keelbreaker, also for submarines. It doesn’t make pathetic holes like this one.
The hole is most probably one of the cutting gear (the diameter seems pretty close to the diameter of the cutting wires they use in this business) they used to cut off the bow. The wreckage you see here is not the ship as found on the bottom. They first cut off a part of the sub before getting it up.

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It’s easy to create a pumpjet, it’s harder to create a silent one

Gepard, the only actual Akula II around, has a normal propellor.

Sierra II never had a sperical bow sonar, you’re talking about Sierra III, the project Mars. They had five of them on the building stocks in 1992, all were abandoned and scrapped. Sierra II was constructed… Two of each. Kostroma is called Krab by most, but Kostroma by the Russians! Here is a picture of her refurbishment (in this case a new escape chamber). It’s a Sierra I so why refurbish one of those? This one isn’t that superior to Akula.