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и нормальные комменты - Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi
While the Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi did not fully rule out sabotage, seasoned submariners like Vice-Admiral (retd) K.N. Sushil, former chief of the Southern Naval Command, consider the scenario "very very dangerous."
"I don’t even want to think of such a possibility," said Mr. Sushil. It would mean someone had penetrated the crew, which was highly unlikely.
He said if there was just a hydrogen blast, it would not have been this disastrous and damaging. But if that were the case, it somehow caused the oxygen torpedoes [torpedoes having oxygen compressed to 200 bars instead of compressed air as fuel oxidizer in its propulsion system] to explode. It could also be conjectured that electric short circuit or something caused the oxygen to blow out. Shockingly, the sequence of events hardly explained anything, he told The Hindu.
The missile warhead couldn't have gone off as missiles "are loaded into the torpedo tubes in nitrogen-pressured containers." To a question on chances of sabotage, he said someone adept at handling torpedoes executing it could not be ruled out.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/if-it-was-sabotage-only-an-insider-could-have-done-it/article5023087.ece