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16.03.2009, 22:26
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America’s strategic submarine fleet, armed with Trident II ballistic missiles, spends more time these days in the deep sea than they did during the Cold War.
20.03.2009, 17:29
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Two U.S. military vessels – a submarine and an amphibious ship – collided in the Middle Eastern seas early on Friday, AFP news agency reports.
16.02.2009, 22:55
The British and French Ministries of Defence confirm that two nuclear-powered submarines were involved in an underwater collision earlier this month.
29.05.2008, 00:06
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HMS Superb, which hit underwater rocks in the Red Sea, has become the fourth British submarine to be involved in an accident in only the last six years. The nuclear-powered vessel was forced to surface in the Suez Canal.
17.02.2009, 14:26
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Russia has confirmed two of its naval vessels were in the area of the Atlantic where a large oil spill was reported on Saturday. But according to a Russian Navy spokesman, the scope of the spill’s been exaggerated.
10.04.2010, 21:40
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All 96 people on board have died after a Polish presidential TU-154 plane crashed near an airport outside Smolensk in western Russia. The Polish president and his wife were among the killed.
12.04.2010, 16:21
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On Monday, services are being held throughout Russia to commemorate the victims of the plane crash near Katyn. Among the perished were the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynsky, and the country’s top officials.
16.08.2009, 20:11
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Two Su-27 fighter jets of the “Russian Knights” aerobatics team have crashed during a final rehearsal ahead of the MAKS 2009 Air Show in the Moscow region. The squadron leader died in the collision.
14.08.2009, 12:30
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Despite a series of reported sightings, the location of a Russian-crewed cargo vessel missing for almost two weeks is still not known.
12.08.2010, 07:30
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The accident onboard the nuclear submarine Kursk that happened exactly 10 years ago during the naval exercise left all 118 members of its crew, most of whom were under 30, dead.
Published: 24 March, 2009, 20:43
The Russian Navy has called for an international agreement that would oblige countries to notify each other about their submarines’ routes in the world’s waterways. They claim this would help prevent marine accidents.
