Catastrophe de même type que celle survenue lors du naufrage du Koursk ?
Plus de 20 personnes ont été tuées samedi après une défaillance d’un système anti-incendie au cours d’un test d’un sous-marin nucléaire de la Flotte russe du Pacifique, a déclaré dimanche un responsable de la marine russe cité par l’agence de presse Itar-Tass.
Bluff, provocation, étape d’une « fine » stratégie pour faire reprendre les rênes du pouvoir par Vladimir Poutine ? Conséquences de la vétusté de l’armement russe ? Nouvelle « démonstration » militaire de la Russie destinée à la Chine, Moscou profitant de la « spécificité » de la période, après l’élection d’Obama ?
Difficile de savoir … même si on a lu l’excellent livre de Marc Dugain intitulé « Une Exécution ordinaire ».
« Au cours d’un test d’un sous-marin nucléaire, le système anti-incendie a connu une défaillance, tuant plus de 20 personnes, parmi lesquelles des militaires et des ouvriers« , a annoncé le porte-parole de la Marine russe Igor Dygalo.
« Le sous-marin n’est pas endommagé, son réacteur fonctionne normalement et les niveaux de radiation enregistrés à bord du sous-marin sont normaux« , a-t-il précisé. Comme d’habitude, on ne demande qu’à croire …
Le 12 octobre dernier, selon les médias locaux – et la presse chinoise toujours très attentive sur ce type de sujet – la Russie a procédé à des tirs d’essai de plusieurs types de missiles, dont ceux intercontinentaux, dans le cadre d’une manoeuvre militaire durant un mois, soit jusqu’au 12 novembre …..
Le sous-marin nucléaire Zelenograd de la flotte du Pacifique avait alors tiré un missile balistique en mer d’Okhotsk, proche du Pacifique. Ce dernier avait touché sa cible située sur le terrain d’essai militaire de Chizha dans le nord de la Russie, avait alors précisé Igor Dygalo cité par Interfax.
A noter également que des équipes de la marine indienne devaient se rendre prochainement à Vladivostok pour s
Je suis l’info et rajoute des éléments en suivant
MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti) –
More than 20 people were killed in an accident at a nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said Sunday.
« More than 20 people were killed during sea trials as a result of accidental launch of the fire-extinguishing system at a nuclear submarine of the Pacific Fleet on November 8, » Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said. « Shipyard workers and servicemen are among the victims. »
He said the Navy commander-in-chief had ordered to stop the trials and the submarine was heading to a temporary base.
Dygalo said 208 people, including 81 servicemen were onboard the submarine.
First Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Kolmakov and Navy commander-in-chief, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky are heading for the site of the accident, Dygalo added. He did not specify the type and name of the submarine.
A source at the Russian Pacific Fleet told RIA Novosti that the accident had not damaged the submarine’s reactor.
The most serious accident regarding Russian submarines occurred on August 12, 2000, when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank following an onboard torpedo explosion, killing all 118 crewmembers.
Des marins indiens vont se rendre en Russie pour commencer à s
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Le porte-parole a toutefois indiqué que l’accident s’est produit alors que le sous-marin effectuait des manoeuvres avec 208 membres d’équipage.
D’après les agences, une partie des blessés ont été transférés à bord d’un navire de lutte anti-sous-marine, l' »Amiral Tributs », qui est dans la zone.
Version officielle
Les victimes du sous-marin russe tuées par du gaz fréon
MOSCOU – Les vingt morts dans l’accident survenu samedi dans un sous-marin nucléaire ont été tués par du gaz fréon émis dans une partie du navire par le déclenchement du système anti-incendie, ont déclaré dimanche les enquêteurs cités par deux agences russes.
« Les premières autopsies sont en cours et leurs résultats confirment que la cause du décès des victimes est l’inhalation de gaz fréon émis à la suite du déclenchement du système d’extinction des incendies dans un des compartiments du sous-marin atomique », a déclaré un représentant de la commission d’enquête du parquet de Russie Vladimir Markine, cité par Ria Novosti.
« Telles sont les premiers résultats des autopsies menées au sujet de l’accident de la mer du Japon », a-t-il dit à l’agence Interfax.
C’est bien l’ex NERPA …. donc sous-marin destiné à être loué à l’Inde
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Plus de détails sur les capacités du sous-marin, sachant par ailleurs que sa location à l’Inde est nettement controversée …
Speculation mounts about Indian lease of new Russian nuclear attack sub news
30 October 2008
Vladivostok: The Russian Amur shipyard, located in the country’s Far East, said early on in the week that it had begun sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, a Schucka -B or Akula II (NATO designation) class, which persistent media reporting has identified as being constructed with Indian finances prior to being given out on long lease to the Indian Navy.
The Akula II or Schucka-class vessels are considered the quietest and deadliest of Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines.
« The submarine, built under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, has been moved from the shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a maintenance facility in the Primorye Territory and fitted with all necessary equipment. At present it is undergoing sea trials, » a spokesman for the shipyard told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Russian media reports and analysis of Russian defence budget peculiarities have suggested that India may have advanced atleast $650 million for a 10-year lease of the 12,000-ton submarine. Possibly, even two of these submarines.
The submarine under question, the Nerpa, is expected to join the Indian Navy under the designation INS Chakra in the second half of 2009. The vessel was originally scheduled for delivery in late 2008. But all this is in the realm of media speculation for no official recognition of any such deal has ever been offered by either side.
Schucka-B/Akula II
The much spoken about Schucka-B, popularly referred to as the Akula II, is one of the most admired war machines designed by the Russian/Soviet design bureaus. It assumed near legendary status a long time back when it successfully sneaked up on the US Navy’s Los Angeles class submarines without them being aware until too late.
These submarines have a double-hulled configuration with a distinctive high aft fin. The hull reportedly has seven compartments and the stand-off distance between the outer and inner hulls is considerable, reducing the possible inner hull damage.
The very low acoustic signature has been achieved by incremental design improvements to minimise noise generation and transmission
The Hindu a le mérite de lancer le débat …
http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/10/stories/2008111056301400.htm
« A spokesman for Russia
Qui continue ici …..
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-russiasub10-2008nov10,0,3939263.story
The vessel was carrying a large number of civilians there to test the new sub. They were unprepared to handle the emergency, analysts say.
By Sergei L. Loiko
1:13 PM PST, November 9, 2008
Reporting from Moscow — A false alarm was responsible for setting off the emission of deadly fire-extinguishing gases on a new Russian nuclear-powered submarine in the Sea of Japan, killing 20 people and injuring 21 late Saturday, Russian navy officials said.
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All but three of the dead were civilian specialists and experts on board the Shark-class submarine Nerpa during the performance test trial, according to the federal prosecutors office.
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The ship’s nuclear reactor was not affected in the accident, and the submarine returned safely to port on its own, said Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo. The reactor was operating normally, and the radiation levels were normal, Dygalo told the Russian news agency Interfax today.
Dygalo said that, of 208 people on board, 91 were the actual crew, and the rest were civilian specialists and experts overseeing the testing of the submarine.
Analysts said the large presence of civilians was likely a crucial factor in the high casualty count. The regular crew would have been far better prepared for the emergency situation when the gas-emission siren rang, said Igor Kurdin, a former Russian nuclear missile submarine commander and head of the St. Petersburg Submariners Club.
« Even if you are the president of the country present on a submarine, » Kurdin said, « you can’t rely on your security detail to save your life in a fire, because you need to be able to save your own life by using the rescue equipment properly and quickly. »
Kurdin said he believed Freon-112 was the gas emitted in two compartments of the submarine when a fire alarm went off. Such releases are normally preceded by a specific light and sound signal, after which all on board are supposed to put on gas masks, which will allow them to survive for 30 minutes before they can leave the affected compartments or the compartments have been adequately ventilated.
« The civilian experts on board may well be very good experts in their own technical sphere, » Kurdin said, « but I am sure they were not prepared for a life-and-death survival challenge. »
Andrei Frolov, a researcher with the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a Moscow-based think tank, laid some of the blame on the automatic fire-sensing system of the submarine.
« The Amur Shipbuilding Plant in Komsomolsk-on-the Amur was testing this new submarine, the first one it produced in 13 years, » said Frolov. « Standing virtually idle for more than a decade couldn’t but tell on the expertise and skills of the shipbuilders, which must have caused this technical fault. »
« I am sure many people were not prepared for what happened, » Frolov said. « The accident happened at around 8:30 p.m., and some of the crew could even be sleeping already. » « I am sure the panic ensued, when the doors of the compartments were automatically sealed and the gas was emitted, » he said, « and for the civilian specialists that must have been too much of a shock to handle it properly. »
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The civilians on board included specialists from St. Petersburg, where the submarine was designed; from Nizhny Novgorod, where the nuclear reactor was designed; and from Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur, where the ship was built, Frolov said.
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The accident was the worst in a Russian submarine since 118 crew members died when the Kursk sank in the Barents Sea in August 2000 as a result of a torpedo explosion on board.
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