Soviet submarine B-59 (Russian: Б-59) was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by US Navy vessels. Senior officers in the submarine, out of contact with Moscow and the rest of the world and believing they were under attack and possibly at war ...

Washington, D.C., October 3, 2022 - Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1962, four Soviet Foxtrot-class diesel submarines, each of which carried one nuclear-armed torpedo, left their base in the Kola Bay, part of the massive Soviet deployment to Cuba that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis. An incident occurred on one of the submarines, B-59, when its captain, Valentin Savitsky, came close to ...

Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ arˈxʲipəf]; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a senior Soviet Naval officer who prevented a Soviet submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October ...

2011年10月1日 · II. Cables, reports, deck logs, and after-action reports on U.S. ASW operations. 1. Excerpt from meeting of the Executive Committee (Excom) of the National Security Council, 10:00 A.M.--11:15 A.M., 24 October 1962, during which President Kennedy and his advisers discussed the Soviet submarine problem and the Navy's procedures for signaling the submarines with practice depth charges.

Vasili Arkhipov, the brigade chief of staff, experienced a moment of clarity. He perceived that there was no war. The Americans wouldn’t waste their substantial resources fixating on a diesel submarine if a full-blown war had broken out. They either would kill the sub or abandon it without a second thought.

1997年10月14日 · This presentation is the only known public statement by Vasily Arkhipov about the events on submarine B-59 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is clear that he is very unhappy about journalist Alexander Mozgovoy’s revelation (based on Vadim Orlov’s account) of the near-use of the nuclear torpedo, which he sees as part of the plot to “denigrate and defame prominent Soviet military and ...

2002年1月1日 · Alexander Mozgovoi, The Cuban Samba of the Quartet of Foxtrots: Soviet Submarines in the Caribbean Crisis of 1962 (Moscow, Military Parade, 2002).

2022年9月26日 · Due to the incident, eight crew members we killed and Arkhipov himself became sick with radiation poisoning, receiving a dose that would eventually lead to his death in 1998.To most people, that ...

Soviet submarine B-59 ([Б-59] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. It played a key role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when senior officers – believing they were under attack – considered launching a nuclear torpedo with an 10 kiloton[citation needed] warhead. On October 1, 1962, B-59, as the ...

2022年3月18日 · On October 27, 1962, the world nearly ended as the commanders of the Soviet Submarine B-59 considered firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo against the US war fleet. ...