How The Kursk was Sunk on August 12, 2000.
In a massive naval exercise, the Russian submarine was carrying out a test in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea to display there Shkval Torpedo which has supercavitating technology. The torpedo is capable of going 370 km/h underwater. US Naval Intelligence officers had reports that the Chinese wanted to purchase these torpedoes from the Russians. As an act of good faith, Russia allowed Chinese observers aboard the Kursk to witness the display of the Shkval Torpedo in action.
Two US Submarines were in the Barents Sea and had orders to closely monitor the test of the supercavitating torpedo. The USS Toledo was ordered to closely shadow the Kursk, to signify the disapproval to the Russians for selling the Shkval Torpedo to the Chinese and the USS Memphis was assigned to observe at a distance. If the Chinese were to acquire the Shkval Torpedo the US Navy would lose absolute superiority in Southeast Asia.
There was a collision in the shallow waters with the Kursk and USS Toledo. The Kursk may have done a Crazy Ivan or the USS Toledo may have miscalculated with the shallow waters which causes greater magnetic interference.
- The underwater collision is reported by the Russian flagship Peter the Great and it gives orders to surrounding vessels to close in on The Kursk and fighter jets are scrambled into the sky above.
- The USS Toledo was badly damaged and attempted to escape while the USS Memphis continued to monitor the Kursk.
- The Kursk loads a Shkval torpedo and opens the torpedoes door.
- The USS Memphis fires a MK-48 and it hits the Kursk in the torpedo room.
- The Kursk continued on its course temporarily until a flash fire erupts and detonates in the torpedo on-board.
- The second explosion sends the Kursk to the seabed.
- The Russians track down the USS Memphis and follow it for 7 days until it reaches the Norwegian port of Bergen. It generally takes two days to get there but it was serving as a decoy for the USS Toledo.
- The USS Toledo escaped but was badly damaged, it was hidden and docked into an undisclosed port.
Three days after the incident, CIA Director George Tenant secretly arrived in Moscow.
President Clinton and President Putin exchange phone calls and a few days later a Russian debt owed to the USA is cancelled and Russia received a new $10.5 Billion loan.
On August 22, 2000 an article appeared on the Pravda website stating “an incident occurred that almost started a third world war for several days world peace held on a thread”.
President Putin and President Clinton resolved the most catastrophic Submarine incident in since the collapse of the Soviet Union diplomatically and both participated in an obvious cover-up. Evidence with the cover-up is linked directly to the secrecy on both sides, contradicting events, not telling the US media until two weeks after the incident that a US submarine was observing the Kursk and last but not least the sudden elimination of a Russian debt by the USA along with a brand new $10.5 Billion dollar loan which occurred within weeks after the collision.
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Escalation erupts suddenly, unexpectedly and erupts exponentially when rival super powers conduct Military Drills and Clandestine Operations in a close proximity.
I’ll leave you with a grave warning. History repeats itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_WrcSW99I part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWyscA5xr0 part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdcYHXAE8nM part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXTJoyp-1I part 4