K-141 Kursk was an
Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile
submarine of the
Russian Navy,
lost with all hands when it sank in the
Barents Sea on August 12, 2000.
Kursk, full name Атомная подводная лодка «Курск», which translated, means the nuclear powered submarine "Курск" [АПЛ "Курск"] in
Russian, was a Project 949A Антей (
Antey,
Antaeus but was also known by its
NATO reporting name of
Oscar II). It was named after the Russian city
Kursk, around which the largest tank battle in military history, the
Battle of Kursk, took place in 1943. One of the first vessels completed after the
fall of the Soviet Union, it was
commissioned into the
Russian Navy's
Northern Fleet.
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