reverting the revert i do not know about any french documentary but on belgian tv we had a 'national geographic' documentary about the kursk alas i did not record it it's summary is as follows the kursk was taking part in an exercise with the aim of showing the power of russia's superfast 'skhval' torpedoes to the chinese the u s navy not happy with the planned sale of skhvals to china had sent two submarines to spy on 'kursk' and thus show u s discontent one of them forgot which one had a collision with kursk as a reaction kursk opened it's skhval equipped torpedo tubes knowing they had no defense against a skhval the commander of the other u s sub in order to 'out speed' a russion attack ordered the firing of it's own mk torpedoes one of them sunk kursk captain of u s sub hurtled away and called white house as soon as possible pres clinton grabbed 'red phone'to call pres putin in order to prevent world war iii putin axcepted clinton's explanation