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The captain of the first rank of the reserve, fleet historian Nikolai Cherkashin commented on the statement of the former commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, that the nuclear submarine Kursk was killed by a collision with a NATO submarine, after which a torpedo explosion occurred on the Russian submarine. Popov added that the SOS signals were given by a foreign boat, not the Kursk.
“I think Admiral Popov’s version is the closest to the truth,” Cherkashin said in an interview with the portal Lenta.ru . He noted that torpedoes do not explode by themselves, especially since there were several degrees of protection.
“I believe that there was an intentional or unintentional impact on the Kursk submarine,” he said.
Cherkashin said that in his opinion, a submarine belonging to the British rammed the Kursk submarine.
He also agreed that the SOS signal was sent by knocks that day not by the Kursk, but by a foreign ship. According to him, the Russian submariners knew that there were no Russian ships in the landfill that could hear this sound.
“Captain Dmitry Kolesnikov in the note does not mention at all that there were attempts to get in touch, he immediately realized that there were very few chances to get out,” the historian said, noting that the submariners hoped to open the hatch of the rescue mine and try to get out through it, but then realized that they were doomed.
“They didn’t live long, for several hours, because a fire broke out that killed everyone, these knocks were heard after the fire,” Cherkashin says. He suggested that some kind of acoustic beacon was installed on a foreign boat to attract search and rescue forces. However, there were no such beacons on the Kursk.