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K-219 had a history mishaps
🕑 Added 2020-07-10 19:08:11 +0000 UTCThe events of 1973 were eerily similar to the events that sunk the submarine 13 years later.
In 1986, the missile watch standers and the officer in charge (weapons officer) knew tube 6 leaked sea water a month before the September 1986 deployment off the coast of Bermuda and DID NOT TELL THE CAPTAIN!
The watch was instructed, by the weaps, to use high pressure air to blow water out of missile tube 6 every day to keep the tube dry. On October 4th, 1986 the missile watch used too much air pressure in the tube and collapsed the fuel tank that resulted in an explosion killing him, the other watch stander and the weapons officer.
Eventually, K-219 would sink due to complications of an escalating casualties that began with not reporting faulty equipment.
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So the air pressure the watch injected into the tube was too much and that collapsed the fuel tank, not the sea water pressure? Can’t imagine that pressure is very slight considering the torpedo has to endure the water pressure.
Wow, that's disturbing. The not reporting thing is very telling... Corrupt higher ups are almost always what leads to that. Even dumb people tend to pass on info, but dumb and smart people won't, if doing there job of reporting a leak will result in them being thrown in the gulag.
Aaron Amick
this is from the Russian investigation summary report. I dont' know how long it's been available, i found it today.
Is it the latest unclassified information? Looks a bit different from most earlier public data like wiki. The earlier version is the leaking in tube 6 eventually touch the propellant of the missile, stream steam generated and the disaster happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219
Robert Sanges
As a former US submariner (in engineering) I find it fascinating how the cultural differences affect the way problems get handled. That ill-fated PIA flight is another example. I just can't imagine things going that way on the subs I was on. At least not with the people I worked with.
Raven Coldheart
This kind of fault handling happens, when an equipment or training failure can land you in a Gulag, even if it wasn't your fault.
You just on have ro remember to specifically tell people to not be dumb and they will mostly obey... tech is easy, people are hard.
