(Michael Petukhov) wrote in message . com...

Just for comparison during her last patrol in march-may, 1999 in
the Mediterranean Kursk 5 times could undetecteced approach NATO
ships for a salvo of his deadly Granit missiles. And they did mock attacks
Next they did 3 mock torpedo attacks. All were undetected. This was
a bit unpleasant surprise since the plan was to train also escape
capabilities agaist US battle group. Then they understood that in order
to alarm "high professionals" from US NAVY they had to make full speed
noisy approach to hand gun shot distance. They did just to train their
escape capabilities. 3 times fully seccessfully. This story has been
recently published in memories of the crews who was not aboard the
Kursk in her last mission.

Is that before or after the Kursk sank itself?