Russian sailors who died fighting fire on nuclear submarine averted planetary catastrophe

How many times before Russia can't have nuclear anything anymore?

Averted a nuclear meltdown?

No doubt they were brave.

I wonder why so many officers were on the sub...

Much of a submarine crew is officers on any standard sub. Couple that with the highly classified status of nuclear subs, you get a very high officer ratio. US does the same thing I’d imagine.

They really need to fix that AZed-5 button.

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Much of a submarine crew is officers on any standard sub. Couple that with the highly classified status of nuclear subs, you get a very high officer ratio. US does the same thing I’d imagine.

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i dunno what is considered a high officer ratio, but my first hand observation is that there are a crap ton of enlisted men aboard an SSBN.

when you say officer, are you referring to commissioned officers only or including Chiefs?

This was no simple nuclear meltdown. There was an attempted false flag attack on that submarine. It was supposed to fire its nuclear payload and start WWIII. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and war was averted. They sacrificed their lives to save hundreds of millions of lives.

What?

Alternate take: Russian nuclear incompetence on full display again

Reading between the lines, they must have encountered one of those undersea alien craft our Navy has been seeing.

"Comrade Commander, why is our nuclear submarine on fire?"

"Because this is Russia."