Martin Antonenko
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Ramming Under Water...!
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union fell and disintegrated...
... and the world is happy that the decades-long Cold War is over.
But the world is wrong!
On February 11, 1992, the US fighter submarine "Baton Rouge" (SSN-689) collided...
...under Captain Gordon Kremer during a spy mission inside Russian territorial waters (the US-Americans say just outside!) off the island of Kildin near Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula...
...in submerged condition with the Russian Sierra-class (missile) submarine B-276 "Kostroma" leaving its home port...:
Both boats are nuclear-armed (although it's actually wrong to call the B-276 a "boat" because it's about the size of a WWII US aircraft carrier!)
All major bases for Soviet submarines are located on the Kola Peninsula.
During the collision, the B-276 hits the "Baton Rouge" from below - and suffers severe damage to the tower...:
The Russian crew under Captain 2nd Rank Wladimir Sokolow...
... with a lot of luck, we manage to bring the badly damaged boat to the surface and to its home port of Severodvinsk.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin then publicly complained about US Navy operations near (or in) Russian territorial waters, and the Navy subsequently publicly admitted for the first time ever that a collision had occurred.
During the cold war there were at least a dozen such collisions, which also sank U-boats with man and mouse (and nuclear weapons on board), such as K-219…
...after being rammed by USS "Augusta" (SSN-710)...
...on October 3, 1986 and K-129...:
... after a collision with an unknown US boat - probably USS "Scorpion" (SSN-589)...:
...March 8, 1968.
All of these collisions have been officially denied.
B-276 was repaired after the ramming...
... returned to service under the new name K-276 "Crab", modernized in 2014 ...
... and is still in service today.
USS "Baton Rouge" was decommissioned and scrapped on January 13, 1995.
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union fell and disintegrated...
... and the world is happy that the decades-long Cold War is over.
But the world is wrong!
On February 11, 1992, the US fighter submarine "Baton Rouge" (SSN-689) collided...
...under Captain Gordon Kremer during a spy mission inside Russian territorial waters (the US-Americans say just outside!) off the island of Kildin near Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula...
...in submerged condition with the Russian Sierra-class (missile) submarine B-276 "Kostroma" leaving its home port...:
Both boats are nuclear-armed (although it's actually wrong to call the B-276 a "boat" because it's about the size of a WWII US aircraft carrier!)
All major bases for Soviet submarines are located on the Kola Peninsula.
During the collision, the B-276 hits the "Baton Rouge" from below - and suffers severe damage to the tower...:
The Russian crew under Captain 2nd Rank Wladimir Sokolow...
... with a lot of luck, we manage to bring the badly damaged boat to the surface and to its home port of Severodvinsk.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin then publicly complained about US Navy operations near (or in) Russian territorial waters, and the Navy subsequently publicly admitted for the first time ever that a collision had occurred.
During the cold war there were at least a dozen such collisions, which also sank U-boats with man and mouse (and nuclear weapons on board), such as K-219…
...after being rammed by USS "Augusta" (SSN-710)...
...on October 3, 1986 and K-129...:
... after a collision with an unknown US boat - probably USS "Scorpion" (SSN-589)...:
...March 8, 1968.
All of these collisions have been officially denied.
B-276 was repaired after the ramming...
... returned to service under the new name K-276 "Crab", modernized in 2014 ...
... and is still in service today.
USS "Baton Rouge" was decommissioned and scrapped on January 13, 1995.
