As reported by sputniknews.com, the Indian nuclear submarine Chakra continues the streak of mystical failures that began in the distant 1991. It was seriously damaged during the August exercise and has now been repaired in Visakhapatnam port for over a month.
The nuclear submarine Chakra is the Russian Project 971U Schuka-B nuclear submarine, formerly called the K-152 Nerpa. It was laid down in 1991 with the planned commissioning already in 1996, however, due to the underfunding of the military-industrial complex, the new military doctrine and other things, construction was frozen. By 1999, the K-152 was planned to be cut into metal, but then the admirals changed their minds and decided to finish building it.
On November 8, 2008, as part of the next stage of the state acceptance of the K-152, the Nerpa went to sea for the production of torpedo firing. During tests on the decks of one of the compartments, an unauthorized operation of the fire extinguishing system occurred with the release of freon into the compartment. As a result, 20 people died on the spot, and the same number received burns of the respiratory tract and frostbite.
During the investigation, it turned out that the fire extinguishing system was unauthorizedly turned on by one of the crew's sailors. The contract sailor had a very strange surname for a submariner, his name was Dmitry GROBOV. What's even stranger is the name of the ill-fated fire suppression system. She called herself LOKH - "volumetric chemical boat":
Ships, and especially submarines, are associated with an incredible number of frightening naval tales that make young sailors literally tremble with fear. And many of these scary stories have a real foundation. For example, the history of ships, which were given the name "Admiral Nakhimov" by all kinds of idiots.
The renowned admiral became famous for the fact that he personally drowned his fleet in order to block the passage to the Sevastopol Bay. Historians write that Nakhimov was very worried about this and asked not to name anything by his name. However, Nakhimov was not listened to.
The cargo schooner named in his honor sank along with the entire crew in 1897 during a march to Turkey.
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The same name “Admiral Nakhimov” was given to the battleship that took part in the Tsushima battle. In order not to surrender the ship to the enemy, the crew flooded it.
The third in the mystical list was the light cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov", laid down at the Nikolaev shipyards in 1912. It was completed only in 1926, and in 1941 it sank after a direct hit from a German aerial bomb.
The fourth was the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, built after the Great Patriotic War. In the 1950s, it was used to test an atomic depth bomb that was detonated under its bottom.
The fifth loser was the civilian research vessel "Nakhimov", which under mysterious circumstances sank at the pier. In 1973, it became heavily iced up and overturned. Only half of the crew escaped.
Sixth in the gloomy list was the large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Nakhimov", built in 1971 at the shipyards in Leningrad. In 1986, during maneuvers in poor visibility, the ship collided with a submarine. The renovation was deemed inappropriate and was sold to a private Indian company for scrap. However, the adventures did not end there: while the ship was being dragged to India, it constantly crashed somewhere, then ran aground, then someone fell overboard.
The seventh “Admiral Nakhimov” was a cruise liner. In 1986, he collided with a dry cargo ship and sank to the bottom along with 423 crew members and passengers.
Finally, the last of the day "Admiral Nakhimov" - a tug that for some unknown reason capsized and sank in the Sea of Azov in early December 2003.
Many of these things are known and we cite them only to illustrate incomprehensible events and coincidences. Although the official science denies mysticism, military sailors and even more shipbuilders treat it with great trepidation. In the atheistic USSR, there was even an unspoken rule - to cut a new nuclear submarine into small components, if three consecutive small accidents happened during the first test. It was not even allowed to use pieces of nuclear submarines for spare parts, so that they would not attract negative to the new ship. Therefore, according to the maritime rules, which for some reason are not studied in the academies, the K-152 Nerpa had to be sent for melting down immediately after the dramatic incident of 2008. This was not done for various reasons, so the nuclear submarine will still show its character to the Indians.