The Nanggala 402 Disaster: Another Kursk?

American Thinker.com ^ | April 29, 2021 | William Greg Reed

[mylife]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_fuel_II

[null and void]

You're a bad man!

A very bad man!

[Lower Deck]

If the boat was already flooded and pressure equalized when she hit crush depth, the hull would be intact.

It imploded. The hull was found in pieces.

[Lower Deck]

Could a PLAN (Chinese Communist) submarine have sunk the Indonesian submarine?

For what purpose?

[Lower Deck]

I had no idea that the Toledo may have caused the Kursk to sink.

It didn't. It was an excuse the Russians floated to place blame elsewhere.

[Captain7seas]

Not real sure that the Indonesian military has a great need to be fooling around Bali in submarines.

[Tallguy]

These were wire-guided torpedoes. I think that’s a different animal than the old WW2 torpedoes that were kind of fire-and-forget. Maybe somebody can amplify on that point.

[Oatka]

when you lose power and are on a 20 deg up bubble and sinking.. it sucks

The WWII boats I was on had what they called "positive buoyancy' in that if you lost all propulsive power and could blow your tanks, you would surface. I read that the nuclear boats had "negative buoyancy" that needed propulsion even with blown tanks in order to get back up.

[hanamizu]

“I had no idea that the Toledo may have caused the Kursk to sink.”

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A former student was aboard USS Toledo when Kursk sank. He had absolutely nothing to say, hint, imply or even a raised eyebrow about what happened. USS Toledo was nearby—that’s their job—and I have no doubt the crew heard whatever happened to Kursk. It’s called the Silent Service for a reason.

Russians wanted to blame Toledo and even cooked up rumors that she had to visit Scotland for repairs. Later evidence showed Kursk somehow destroyed himself (Russian ships use masculine pronouns).

But to put things into perspective, Kursk’s hull was longer than the depth to which it sank, meaning if it had sunk straight down, its stern would have been above water. But it was still too deep to have a chance to rescue any of its crew.

[2CAVTrooper]

I was thinking the same thing.

Torpedo exploded in the tube or somehow circled back and hit them.

[fishtank]

“Kapitan Kolesnikov” by DDT (The Kursk)

Music Video by Russian group DDT, subtitled into English thanks to Link TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLk-LqR0pc

Song

Капитан Колесников (Прекрасная любовь)

Artist

ДДТ

Album

Прекрасная любовь

[mylife]

awesome find

[fishtank]

A different video montage - worth watching

ДДТ-Капитан Колесников

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robLjYLW91A

[fishtank]

See Larry King ask Putin about the Kursk at 3:30 mins (on the second clip I posted).

[mylife]

they flat out told us if anything happens we will deny you where there

[mylife]

and lots happened and they know, I wired the boats for sound and sent the tapes to nsa , but there was no international incident no lives lost Putin’s response is what I would expect