Apparently the Russians have suffered yet another submarine disaster:
https://news.usni.org/2019/07/02/14-sailors-die-on-secretive-russian-nuclear-submarine
We used to have a small, secretive nuclear sub similar to this Russian one. It was the NR-1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_submarine_NR-1
NR-1 and other US subs conducted lots of secretive missions not unlike what the Russian sub is said to have been doing. That's what subs do.
And many US subs have suffered from fires and other underwater disasters. I was a witness to several of them myself, and I've always been amazed that Scorpion and Thresher were our only two nuclear sub losses. We've come VERY close numerous times on other vessels.
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