Soviet submarine K-219
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K-219 was a Project 667A Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy. It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide. K-219 was involved in what has b
US Navy photo of K-219 on the surface after suffering a fire in a missile tube
Mathias Rust
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Mathias Rust is a German aviator. In 1987, as a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims, he was tracked several times by So
Soviet submarine K-219
…He was never imprisoned, but waited for his trial in Sverdlovsk. On 30 May 1987, Defense Minister Sergey Sokolov was dismissed as a result of the Mathias Rust incident two days earlier, and replaced by Dmitry Yazov; the charges against Britanov were subsequently dismissed. In 1997, the British BBC television…
Rust in 2012
D-ECJB at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin (2010).