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Как и следовало ожидать -
в руках североамериканской администрации неопровержимые доказательства тому, что на «Курске» произошел случайный взрыв собственной торпеды (каковой вогнул люки ВНУТРЬ...). Администрация подтвердила сообщение NYTimes, согласно которому у служб слежения имеются данные, подтверждющие именно эту точку зрения. Само собою, возможность столкновения исключена, ибо ни одной североамериканской подводной лодки не было и проч. Я полагал увидеть подобное сообщение на неделю раньше. Неужто для того, чтобы изготовить такие записи, потребовалось столь длительное время? — или это показалось целесообразным только теперь, в преддверии визита г. Путина? Подробнее — для читающих по-аглицки: Tuesday August 29 10:35 AM ET U.S. Sonar Tapes Support Kursk Torpedo Theory By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Acoustical spy tapes made by an American submarine in the Barents Sea support the theory that a faulty torpedo apparently exploded and sank the Russian submarine Kursk, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The Clinton administration officials confirmed a New York Times report that sonar tapes and other recordings that captured sounds of two explosions believed to have sunk the Kursk on Aug. 12, killing all 118 persons aboard, contained the strongest evidence of the U.S. theory of a torpedo accident. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said the USS Memphis, one of two U.S. subs that were monitoring Russian naval exercises in the Barents, had unloaded tapes in Norway after the incident and the tapes were being analyzed at the National Maritime Intelligence Center near Washington. The Times reported that U.S. experts believed a new rocket-propelled torpedo, being loaded or launched as part of the exercise, misfired and its engine or fuel exploded. That was followed a few minutes later by a larger blast, apparently the torpedo's warhead. ``What happened seems to be fairly apparent despite what the Russians have said was a possible collision with another submarine with or an old mine,'' one U.S. official told Reuters. ''We don't think there was any collision — and certainly not with one of our subs.'' Quoting intelligence officials and senior Navy officers, the Times reported that a powerful second explosion ripped the submarine two minutes and 15 seconds after an initial blast, tearing a gaping hole in the bow and killing most if not all of the crew instantly. Russian officials have given several theories to explain why the Kursk sank, including a collision with a foreign submarine and striking a Second World War mine. But Defense Secretary William Cohen earlier publicly dismissed suggestions that a U.S. submarine might have collided with the Kursk. U.S. officials refused to identify the second U.S. submarine that was monitoring the Russian exercises, but said neither of the American boats was close when the explosions apparently ripped the Kursk. Collision Not Suspected One official told the Times that neither the submarines nor the U.S. surface spy ship Loyal, which also was monitoring the exercise, had detected any sounds that would suggest a collision of any kind. They said that, even at great distances, signals created by a collision or an explosion are easy to distinguish. Former Russian navy captain and environmentalist Alexander Nikitin said at a Washington news conference last week that the accident could have been caused by human error and through an explosion of new, less expensive torpedoes when the vessel collided with the ocean floor. Nikitin, an anti-nuclear activist who retired from the Russian Navy in 1992, cited an article in the Russian military newspaper ``Red Star.'' That article said a cheaper type of torpedo, using more volatile liquid propellant, was being used on Northern Fleet submarines rather than the usual, more stable solid-fuel version. The Norwegian seismic institute also reported recording two explosions, and Norwegian officials have said the data matched theories of a blast aboard the nuclear-powered vessel, perhaps in a torpedo that may have triggered another, bigger explosion.