In what year was the Russian submarine Kursk sunk and the USS Cole attacked in Aden?
Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) K-141 "Kursk" (, transl. , meaning "Nuclear-powered submarine "Kursk"") was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Russian Navy. On 12 August 2000, K-141 "Kursk" was lost when it sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 personnel on board. K-141 "Kursk" was a Project 949A class "Antey" () submarine of the Oscar-class, known as the Oscar II by its NATO reporting name, and was the penultimate submarine of the Oscar II class designed and approved in the Soviet Union. Construction began in 1990 at the Soviet Navy military shipyards in Severodvinsk, near Arkhangelsk, in
Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) the northern Russian SFSR. During the construction of K-141, the Soviet Union collapsed; work continued, and she became one of the first naval vessels completed after the collapse. K-141 was inherited by Russia and launched in 1994, before being commissioned by the Russian Navy on December 30, as part of the Russian Northern Fleet. K-141 was named "Kursk" after the city, following the naming system for Soviet submarines. "Kursk" was assigned to the home port of Vidyayevo, Murmansk Oblast. The Antey design represented the highest achievement of Soviet nuclear submarine technology. They were the second-largest attack submarines ever built, after