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Thread #24415   Message #281099
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
20-Aug-00 - 08:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Kursk fiasco
Subject: RE: BS: Karsk fiasco
I don't think this point has been made above (sorry if it has and I've overlooked it) but apparently the Russian navy was reissued with a new type of torpedo in 1998. The naval high command resisted like hell, on the basis that the new ammo was considered to be dangerously volatile and hard to handle.