Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "K-219 Soviet Submarine Missile Disaster" video.

Highly volatile fuels on a submarine. Which is also the cause of the Kursk explosion 14 years later. And the same old excuse of collision with a NATO submarine was trotted out for both accidents. The British had been experimenting with a similar torpedo to those on the Kursk back in the 1950s and also had an explosion through a leak of the torpedoes fuel. This was on HMS Sidon on 16 June 1955. 13 crew were killed but because the Sidon was in the harbour at the time the rest of the grew escaped. Britain had enough sense to cancel the torpedo research programme, which make you wonder why the Russians thought it was a good idea. The British had, what I believe, is the worlds first attack submarine. It was the R-class submarine, of which 10 were built with the first being commissioned in 1918. They were designed to hunt German submarines using hydrophones to locate and track them. It was very streamlined for its day, with no deck gun or external ballast tanks. She could do 14 knots submerged and 9 knots on the surface.
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David Marquardt I had not heard of that. Thanks for that. After WW2 the British did some research into the fuel used in the Messerschmidt me 163 and found it could be stabilised by using passing it through a mesh coated in silver. They planned to use it on a proposed interceptor but the project fell through when the Germans pulled out.
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