Russian submarine Kursk (K-141)
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| Name: | K-141 Kursk |
| Namesake: | Named after the Russian city Kursk |
| Laid down: | 1992 |
| Launched: | 1994 |
| Commissioned: | December 1994 |
| Struck: | August 2000 |
| Fate: | Sank 12 August 2000 with all 118 hands in 100 m (330 ft) of water in Barents Sea |
| Status: | Raised from the seafloor (except bow), towed to shipyard, and dismantled |
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| Class and type: | Oscar II-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 13,400 to 16,400 tonnes (13,200 to 16,100 long tons; 14,800 to 18,100 short tons) |
| Length: | 154.0 m (505.2 ft) |
| Beam: | 18.2 m (60 ft) |
| Draft: | 9.0 m (29.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 OK-650b nuclear reactors , 2 steam turbines, two 7-bladed propellers |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) submerged, 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 to 500 metres (980 to 1,640 ft) (by various estimates) |
| Complement: | 44 officers, 68 enlisted |
| Armament: | 24 × SS-N-19/P-700 Granit, 4 × 533 mm (21 in) and 2 × 650 mm (26 in) torpedo tubes (bow); 24 torpedoes |
| Notes: | Home port: Vidyaevo, Russia |
K-141 Kursk (full Russian name Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»), Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka "Kursk" (APL "Kursk"), meaning "Nuclear-powered submarine Kursk") was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Russian Navy which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. It was a Project 949A Антей (Antey, Antaeus; NATO reporting name "Oscar II") submarine.
It was named after the Russian city of Kursk, around which the Battle of Kursk took place in 1943. One of the first vessels completed after the end of the Soviet Union, it was commissioned into the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.
Work on building Kursk began in 1990 at Severodvinsk, near Arkhangelsk. Launched in 1994, it was commissioned in December of that year. It was the penultimate Oscar II class submarine designed and approved in the Soviet era.
The Antey design represented the highest achievement of Soviet nuclear submarine technology. They were second-largest attack submarines ever built, after the Typhoon Class submarine (Akula /Project 941). It was built to defeat an entire United States aircraft carrier group. A single Type 65 torpedo carried a 450 kg (990 lb) warhead powerful enough to sink an aircraft carrier. Both missiles and torpedoes could be equipped with nuclear warheads. She was 9.1 m (30 ft) longer than the preceding Oscar I-class of submarines. The senior officers had individual staterooms and the entire crew had access to a gymnasium.
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