> Chris DeBoe wrote:
> Woah...
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/08/27/stifgnrus01003.h
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TWO civilian experts from a Russian military plant were conducting secret
munitions tests aboard the Kursk submarine, which sank after the hull was
ripped apart in an accident, it emerged last night.
The final moments of the doomed craft have been pieced together by Western
military experts, who believe a test firing went disastrously wrong, igniting
highly inflammable propellant and detonating missile and torpedo warheads.
The resulting explosions blew a huge hole in the right-hand side of the
Kursk's nose, where the torpedo room is located. Water flooded in, causing the
pride of the Russian submarine fleet to sink in seconds.
Military experts said they believed the crew of the Kursk were testing one
of two weapons systems: an anti-submarine missile that fired from a
torpedo
tube out of the sea, then re-entered it to attack submarines; or an
upgraded version of a fast and silent torpedo called the Squall.
> --- Michael Sarno <msarno@ptdprolog.net> wrote:
...
> TWO civilian experts from a Russian military plant
These guys wouldn't have been from the same firm that was conducting tests a
Chernobel, Couldn't be.
Bye for now,
John: These two have a long history of cheating death. There was the rocket
explosian at the space launch facility (they were off using the bathroom at
the time). Then there was the spent radioactive burial facilities (mines) that
accidently belched a bunch of toxic matter and gases out (vacationing in
Moscow at the time). Then there was the concorde crash in Paris. Kicked off so
the journalist could get on board). Then there was submarine reactor meltdown
in the artic (only two that brought radiation suits)
etc
etc
etc
I think their luck finally ran out.
John W. Fox
> --- Michael Sarno <msarno@ptdprolog.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [OT] Secret torpedo test 'blew sub apart' [was Fw: High
speed subs]
> John:
Hardly They got out the big hole in the Kursk's hull, got secretly picked up
by a rescue vessel and then went on a holiday to Moscow for recuperation. They
were on a city tour which included a visit to the TV tower.
Greetings Karl Heinz
> John W. Fox
> aebrain@dynamite.com.au wrote
You are right, of course.
And mishaps in space are not going to be any nicer.
But that's one aspect we usually prefer not to think about when we blow up
each other's ships, tanks or planes on the gaming table.
Greetings Karl Heinz
> > These two have a long history of cheating death.
> > > > TWO civilian experts from a Russian military plant
Sorry if I don't partake of the joke. Been there, done that, only in Western
rather than Russian Subs. Of course,
my bits of kit worked - even when they didn't, they failed
safe as per design..
From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
> You are right, of course.
Nutuerlich... <g>
> And mishaps in space are not going to be any nicer.
> But that's one aspect we usually prefer not to think about when we
Stimmt
(Ich war mitarbeiter fuer STN-Atlas Elektronik GmbH)
BTW The St Petersberg Submariners Club is a confirmed
genuine organisation composed of Russki ex-submariners
who have set up a benefit fund for the families of the Kursk.
Correspondent bank: BANK OF NEW YORK SWIFT: IRVT US 3N Beneficiary bank:
INKASBANK, ST.PETERSBURG SWIFT: INKS RU 2 P
ACCOUNT: 890-0260-963
Beneficiary: 40703840200029000028 SUBMARINERS CLUB, SAINT PETERSBURG LINIA 9,
50, V.O. ST.PETERSBURG (DONATION TO THE KURSK CREW FAMILIES
- DOBROVOLNIY BEZVOZMEZDNIY VZNOS NA BLAGOTVORITELNIE TSELY, PRODAZE NE
PODLEZIT)
Even a few bucks or DM would help....