A $70 million operation was launched to recover the sunken Russian submarine Kursk. Here’s how one of the most expensive and difficult salvage missions in history unfolded.

The K-141 Kursk submarine K-141 Kursk was part of an 11-sub series of Project 949A Antey vessels, known by NATO as Oscar II. These are large, nuclear-powered oceanic submarines.

Thomas Vinterberg’s movie Kursk was never going to have a happy ... The following day, they set out on in the submarine. Mikhail is babysitting a torpedo that seems to have a very dangerous ...

In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed. As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair of training torpedoes.

One man who is watching the Kursk submarine drama with particular interest ... I was the one with overall responsibility for the design." Robertson, 60, is currently the managing director of ...

Kursk submarine tragedy has its own place in the world navy history. What is the legacy and lessons of that incident? What has changed in the Russian submarine industry and how an Australian ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- A senior Russian official is reported to have pledged to raise the wreck of the nuclear submarine Kursk by late September. Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Prime Minister Ilya ...

On Saturday, a LR5 mini-submarine piloted by the divers and supported by technicians, medics and the British and Russian navies will attempt to dock with the Kursk and rescue any survivors.

MOSCOW, Russia --Bad weather is pushing back the timetable for raising the wreck of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Rough seas have slowed down the progress of divers attaching cables to the ...