Indian Navy news and discussion

[Raj Malhotra]

Old but useful



[url="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53210&sectionid=40&Itemid=1&issueid=111"]india today article[/url]





Over the next five years, the troika of Arihant class SSBNs, each costing Rs 3,200 crore, will make the third leg of India’s nuclear triad—a strategic underwater platform for launching nuclear weapons.



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In 2005, the UPA Government gave an in-principle clearance for building a follow-on series of larger ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), costing nearly Rs 8,000 crore a piece or nearly twice that of the current series of ATVs and another line of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSNs) to escort them.



I would say that we are looking at atleast 3+3+3 nuke subs. My guess would be first 3 in 2010 to 2015 and next 6 between 2015 to 2020 apart from import of Russian Akulas.



[url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Home-made-nuke-sub-INS-Arihant-to-be-inducted-in-2-years/articleshow/5293123.cms"]Home-made nuke sub INS Arihant to be inducted in 2 years[/url]



This will include three SSBNs (nuclear-powered submarines with long-range strategic missiles) and six SSNs (nuclear-powered attack submarines) in the long-term.