Submarine incident off Kildin Island
Submarine incident off Kildin Island | |||||||
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Part of Operation Holy Stone | |||||||
USS Baton Rouge awaiting disposal at Mare Island (1995) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Russia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Captain Gordon Kremer | Cdr. Igor Lokot[3] | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
1 Los Angeles-class submarine | 1 Sierra-class submarine | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 nuclear submarine heavily damaged | 1 nuclear submarine damaged | ||||||
The submarine incident off
Background
Following the
Collision
Blind encounter
The collision occurred at 8:16 pm local time,
Damage
Both submarines sustained damage, but no casualties were reported. Russian reports and American aerial surveillance agree that Kostroma's
Political consequences
The incident produced intense embarrassment in Washington.
See also
- Submarine incident off Kola Peninsula
- Strait of Juan de Fuca laser incident
- Incident at Pristina airport
- 2021 Black Sea incident
- 2023 Black Sea drone incident
Notes
- ^ a b "In late 1993, it was announced that one of the oldest Los Angeles class boats, the USS Baton Rouge, would be decommissioned and placed in reserve. The official reason for this was that the boat was due for a very expensive refueling and the cost of this could not be justified in the current environment. However, confidential European sources have pointed out that the Baton Rouge was involved in a collision with a Russian Sierra class submarine and had not been to sea since. This, they suggested, pointed to serious pressure hull damage rather than refueling costs as being responsible for the decommissioning." Warships Forecast, February 1997.
- ^ Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A & M University at Galveston, 1996.
- ^ "Sub wreck won't alter US policy". NewspaperArchive.com. Independent Examiner by Associated Press, Feb 19, 1992, p. 14. 19 February 1992. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ Sontag & Drew, p. 586.
- ^ Reed, p. 1.
- ISBN 0813343623.
- ^ a b c d Eugene Miasnikov (April 1993). "Submarine Collision off Murmansk". The Submarine Review: 6.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., 1992.
- ^ John H. Gushman Jr. "Two Subs Collide off Russian Port", The New York Times, 19 February 1992.
- ^ Artur Blinov and Nikolay Burbyga, "Underwater Incident in the Kola Gulf," Izvestia, 20 February 1992 p.1; Nikolay Burbyga and Viktor Litovkin "Americans Not Only Helping Us, But Spying on Us. Details of Submarine Collision in Barents Sea," Izvestia, 21 February 1992, p. 2.
- ^ Jane's defence weekly: Volume 17, p. 352. Jane's Pub. Co., 1992.
- ISBN 0815777744.
- ^ ISBN 140005124X.
- ^ a b "However, because American boats are of single-hull design, these tears were ruptures in her pressure hull, and thus represented significant damage." Stern, p. 184.
- ^ The larger cut was five-feet long as per Reed, p. 153.
- ^ Navy to decommission Los Angeles-class attack sub Defense Daily, 17 September 1993.
- ^ Linder, Bruce (2005). Tidewater's navy: an illustrated history. Naval Institute Press, p. 248.
- ISBN 1574885308.
- ISBN 522403308X.
- ^ "Submarine Photo Index". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "945 Sierra class". warfare.be. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013.
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- ^ Sontag & Drew, p. 587.
- ^ Stern, p. 185.
References
- Sontag, Sherry; and Drew, Christopher (1998). Blind Man's Bluff: The untold story of American submarine espionage. Thorndyke press. ISBN 0786218762
- Stern, Robert (2007). The hunter hunted: submarine versus submarine encounters from World War I to the present. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591143799
- Reed, Williams (2003). Crazy Ivan: Based on a True Story of Submarine Espionage. IUniverse. ISBN 0595265065