Kursk Submarine Sank Because of US-Soviet Arms Race

"The USA could access the technological power of the whole Western world, which was a considerable advantage. The US economy was larger than that of the USSR, and it was very hard for the USSR to compete with the Americans. However, Soviet specialists were building high-performance arms. Russia has a lot to catch up with the Soviet Union at this point. Soviet submarines became a very serious threat to the Western navy. If an armed conflict had occurred between the two countries, many NATO vessels would have been destroyed without a doubt."

Sergey Balmasov
Vadim Trukhachev
Pravda.Ru

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