The former chairman of the Special Purpose Underwater Work Committee, Vice Admiral of the Reserve of the Russian Navy, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Tengiz Borisov told Lente.ru that the NATO submarine had nothing to do with the death of the Kursk. Earlier, the ex-commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, reiterated this version of the disaster that occurred on August 12, 2000 during an exercise in the Barents Sea.
“Firstly, the submarine was sailing in a straight line at periscope depth, the acoustics, thank God, are excellent there, and the submariners could not allow such an approach with someone else’s boat. Secondly, at an insignificant speed at which the submarine was sailing, such catastrophic consequences could not have occurred in a collision, “Vice Admiral Borisov replied.
He also disagreed with Popov’s statement that the submarine “nodded.”
“The boat, after the first explosion, continued to go in a straight line at the same depth, and only after the second catastrophic explosion did it dive down, because the boat sank with the pull-out devices raised. If the boat had started to dive right after the bow was damaged and the first compartment began to flood, the automatic would have worked, and the retractable devices would have lowered to a depth of about 25-20 meters, “explained Borisov.
In his opinion, Popov’s thesis that the NATO submarine, which the Kursk allegedly collided with, was lying nearby and knocking an SOS signal, does not stand up to criticism, since American submarines, as well as Russian ones, do not have such devices.
“Now the Americans are behaving insolently on the Black Sea, our relations are really not brilliant, probably one of the worst in recent years, so he apparently decided to seize the moment and blame everything on the Americans,” Borisov summed up.
The Kursk crash killed 118 sailors. According to a report by the Prosecutor General’s Office, the cause of the disaster was a torpedo explosion caused by a leak of fuel components. The version of the possible collision of “Kursk” with a foreign submarine, presented by Admiral Popov, was put forward by him in November 2000, three months after the death of the submarine, but was never confirmed. During the investigation, Popov continued to command the Northern Fleet and was removed from office only on December 1, 2001 with the wording “for serious omissions in the organization of the fleet’s daily and combat training activities.”
On November 22 of this year, Popov turned 75 years old.
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