In terms of one battle that deserves the spotlight in these failures is Kursk .
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Kursk drives deep to the heart of the problems of the Wehrmacht in 1943.
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The Kursk had suffered two on-board explosions, and sunk to the bottom like a stone.
There has been mixed reaction in the Russian media to the plight of the submarine "Kursk".
In 2000 an explosion on the Kursk sub killed 118 sailors in the Arctic.
Chernobyl wasn't designed to blow up and the Kursk wasn't designed to sink.
Ru, has launched a special Kursk site, while a slick English-language site displays computer graphics of the salvage plans.
The bow had been cut from the main part of the Kursk because of the danger posed by the torpedoes.
Each had four or five German watches on his forearm, not as trophies from Stalingrad and Kursk, but for trade.
From the Burma Road to the Arctic convoys, the killing fields of Kursk and the London Blitz, their voices are heard.
The navy has tried to convince anyone who would listen that the Kursk was struck by a foreign submarine, which then sailed away.
Reporters also raised hard questions about sloppy housekeeping, claiming, for example, that the Kursk lacked the right emergency batteries, food and oxygen supplies.
That is why the Kremlin is taking a close interest in the model for a memorial put forward by two sculptors in Kursk town.
Dr John Large, a nuclear expert who has advised the Royal Navy and helped Russia raise the Kursk submarine, called the proposal "sheer lunacy".
The Russian navy has received a new nuclear missile submarine which has an escape capsule, to avoid any repetition of the 2000 Kursk disaster.
The idea that a smaller submarine could have struck the Kursk and sailed away, whilst the Russian giant sank to the bottom is difficult to imagine.
Negotiations on joint submarine search and rescue operations - an initiative that sprang from the Kursk submarine disaster in August 2000 - are also well advanced.
But Mr Ustinov admits that the inquiry will eventually have to focus on the bow of the Kursk - still to be removed from the seabed.
The parlous state of the Russian military raised questions among observers as to why the Russian navy was conducting a 30-ship exercise, including sophisticated submarines like the Kursk.
And the one heroic figure that stands up for all Russians today in the opinion polls is Marshal Zhukov, the victor of the Battle of Kursk in 1943.
But Vice-Admiral Mikhail Barskov, the officer charged with the recovery of the Kursk, has already said it is in such a poor condition it cannot be lifted as a whole.
Two explosions on board the submarine had been monitored, making it clear that the bow of the Kursk had been ripped open, and the vessel had sunk to the bottom like a stone.
While keeping foreign journalists with their impertinent questions away from last Sunday's commemoration of the sinking, Mr Yastrzhembsky's team has recast the unlucky crew of the Kursk as heroes dying for the fatherland.
With a disaster that would combine the nastier elements of Chernobyl and the Kursk tragedy on the cards, Neeson and Ford clash over how best to save the ship, crew and possibly the world.
Dutch shipping and salvage firm Smit International - which helped raise Russia's Kursk submarine - has formally submitted a proposal to the Spanish Government and the European Union officials to salvage oil from the wreck.
But as the layers of official fabrication were peeled away to reveal the bitter truth, the Russian Navy dreamt up another theory to cover its embarrassment: the Kursk had been struck by a foreign vessel.
Yet there are some startling gaps, such as the sinking of the Kursk submarine and the terrorist atrocity in Beslan itself a turning point in Mr Putin's approach to the West, which he implicitly blamed for Chechen terrorism.
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Such an explanation would perhaps be easier to believe, were it not for the fact that the Kursk is the largest submarine in the world, and, unlike any Western submarine, has a twin-hull, the inner skin of which alone is 40cm thick.
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