Silver-zinc si, lithium no!
From the Internet web site Strategy Page yet one more Losharik item the submarine disaster.
"Submarines: Losing Losharik"
Losharik not lost but badly damaged. Cause as yet undetermined but thought be battery failure.
From the Strategy Page article:
"There are still questions about the batteries the Losharik used. The sub was originally designed to use Ukrainian made silver-zinc batteries but since 2014 Ukrainian military imports have been less 'available' and Losharik switched to Russian made lithium batteries, which behave differently than silver-zinc ones. Lithium batteries will catch fire and explode if they are short-circuited. How that happened on Losharik is still unknown, much less how to avoid it."
UKRAINIAN MADE BATTERIES NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF BORDER DISPUTE AND CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA. KARMA CAN BE A BITCH!
SILVER-ZINC BATTERIES AS USED IN THE EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN SUBMARINE ALBACORE (AGSS-569). ALBACORE A TEST-BED FOR NEW AND PROMISING TECHNOLOGY. SILVER-ZINC BATTERIES THE ADVANTAGES FOR SUBMARINE OPERATIONS UNDENIABLE.
'when outfitted with her [Albacore] special high capacity silver-zinc battery, could out run a contemporary nuclear submarine. In 1966, she set the record as the world's fastest submarine having attained an underwater speed of nearly 40 miles per hour."
[it is believed the Soviet Alfa class and Papa class submarines during the era of the Cold War exceeded this speed, but only one vessel of those respective classes ever having sailed]
As to the advantage of using silver-zinc batteries from the wiki:
"Experimental new silver–zinc technology (different to silver-oxide) may provide up to 40% more run time than lithium-ion batteries and also features a water-based chemistry that is free from the thermal runaway and flammability problems that have plagued the lithium-ion alternatives."
As with some Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones so too with the Losharik?
coolbert.