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Captain of the first line backup, fleet historian Nikolai Cherkashin commented on the statement of the former commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, that the nuclear submarine Kursk died in a collision with a NATO submarine, after which a torpedo exploded on a Russian submarine. . Popov added that the SOS signals were sent by a foreign ship, not a Kursk.
“I think Admiral Popov's version is closest to the truth,” Cherkashin told Lenta.ru. He noted that the torpedoes would not explode on their own, especially when there were several degrees of protection.
“I believe there was a deliberate or unintentional intervention by the Kursk submarine,” he said.
Cherkashin said that in his opinion, the submarine Kursk was hit by a submarine belonging to Great Britain.
He also agreed that the SOS signal that day did not emit KURSK knocking, but a foreign ship. According to him, Russian submarines knew that there were no ships within range that could hear this sound.
“Captain Dmitry Kolesnikov does not mention in the note that there will be any attempts at a merger.” “He immediately understood that there was very little chance of getting out,” the historian said, noting that the submarines were hoping to open the hatch of the mine and try to get out, but then they realized they were doomed. “They didn't live long, a few hours, because there was a fire that killed everyone, these knocks could be heard even after the fire,” says Cherkashin. He proposed that an acoustic beacon be installed on the alien ship to attract search and rescue services. However, there were no such lighthouses in Kursk.