Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘We Lost the Nuclear Weapons’: Fire Consumed and Sank a Russian Titanium Attack Submarine That Now Leaks Radiation In April 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire in its engineering compartment during a routine patrol off Norway’s Bear Island. The... Brent M. EastwoodMay 17, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Russia Lost a ‘Titanium’ Attack Submarine with 2 Nuclear-Tipped Torpedoes Aboard Key Points and Summary – A deep dive is taken into the tragic, but often forgotten, 1989 sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets, a unique,... Christian OrrOctober 10, 2025