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Re:Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catas... by petre on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:36AM (#20399625)
So basically personnel can't access the reactor and engine compartments from the life support units, the sub has to surface. Here's a bigger version of the same diagram with readable text:

http://www.hisutton.com/images/Ru_Losharik_Cutaway.jpg

Skegs, hydraulic manipulator, no weapons. It's clearly ment to tamper with undersea cables.

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Re:Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catas... by iguy on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:54AM (#20399992)
Are any of these details more than speculation? I had the impression that the best information was some not-so-clear pictures which happened to catch it on the surface, plus the admission a few days ago that it is in fact nuclear powered, and had a suspiciously high-ranking crew.

I agree that tampering with cables seems like the obvious reason for the military to go super-deep. With recovering sunken things made by your adversary a close second. And in the mid-1980s, they were much better at titanium than at video cameras.

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