| 词条 | Soviet submarine B-59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Soviet submarine B-59 ({{lang-ru|Б-59}}) 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 T-5 nuclear torpedo. BackgroundOn October 1, 1962, the Project 641 [Foxtrot] diesel-electric submarine B-39, as the flagship of a detachment with its sister ships B-4, B-36 and B-130, sailed from its base on the Kola Peninsula to the Caribbean Sea, in support of Soviet arms deliveries to Cuba (an operation known to the Soviets as Anadyr). However, on October 27, units of the United States Navy – the aircraft carrier USS Randolph and 11 destroyers – detected B-39 near Cuba. US vessels began dropping depth charges of the type used for naval training and containing very little charge. The purpose was to attempt to force the submarine to the surface for positive identification. Messages from the US Navy, to communicate that practice depth charges were being used, never reached B-39 or, it seems, Soviet naval HQ. Nuclear launchB-59 had not been in contact with Moscow for a number of days and, although the submarine's crew had earlier been picking up US civilian radio broadcasts, once they began attempting to hide from its pursuers, it was too deep to monitor any radio traffic, so those on board did not know whether or not war had broken out. The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievich Savitsky, believing that war had already started, wanted to launch the nuclear torpedo. The three primary officers on board – Captain Valentin Savitsky, the political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and commander of the deployed submarine detachment Vasili Arkhipov, equal in rank to Savitsky but the senior officer aboard B-59, were only authorized to launch the torpedo if they all unanimously agreed to do so. B-59 was the only sub in the flotilla that required three officers' authorization in order to fire the "special weapon". The other three subs only required the captain and the political officer to approve the launch, but, due to Arkhipov's position as detachment commander, B-59s captain and political officer were required to gain his approval as well. Arkhipov alone opposed the launch, and eventually he persuaded Savitsky to surface the submarine and await orders from Moscow. As the submarine's batteries had run very low and its air-conditioning had failed, B-59 had to surface in order to use its diesel engine, and it surfaced amid the US warships pursuing it. B-59 then set course for the Soviet Union. NotesReferences
5 : Foxtrot-class submarines|Cuban Missile Crisis|Ships built in the Soviet Union|1960 ships|Cold War submarines of the Soviet Union |
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