06-03-2010, 11:06 PM
^^^
Gagan,
Arihant doesnt come with any hump on its back.
Its a very clean design.Its 13 m dia core allows K-15(for now) which is 11m in lenght without the need for any hump.But its has everything to be done when SLBM of Agni series is considered.given that the SLBM of over 6500km range and 1.5 tons payload comes up with a 2-2.3 m dia and over 13 m lenght, the follow up series of subs were considered to be upsized ones.It means again they are allowing the final SLBM wihtout any hump.Did you know? that have an SBN with no hump is no ordinary feat and India did it with the first time.
L&T has released some pics of the section thats above water couple of years back.Donno if its still available to general viewers.
Arihant in general is a 7500 tonne standard displacement and >12000tonne submerged displacement SBN carrying a lower end SLBM( follows a quasi ballistic trajectory)with a range of bare 2000km for a (worthless warhead <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> ){Again I said worthless here means I myself dont even consider it as a true deterent}
But all eyes were on the followup class i.e gen-II nuclear subs of Indian origin.Arihant itself is a an operational technological demonstrator.(nothing more than that).Do we think that we can scare the shit out of china with Arihant? Nah will never ever be.But china is shitting due to its followup class of boats and the fear can be see at the diplomatic channels.
I have no idea how come some images with hump started floating in the interent with no basing.
Gagan,
Arihant doesnt come with any hump on its back.
Its a very clean design.Its 13 m dia core allows K-15(for now) which is 11m in lenght without the need for any hump.But its has everything to be done when SLBM of Agni series is considered.given that the SLBM of over 6500km range and 1.5 tons payload comes up with a 2-2.3 m dia and over 13 m lenght, the follow up series of subs were considered to be upsized ones.It means again they are allowing the final SLBM wihtout any hump.Did you know? that have an SBN with no hump is no ordinary feat and India did it with the first time.
L&T has released some pics of the section thats above water couple of years back.Donno if its still available to general viewers.
Arihant in general is a 7500 tonne standard displacement and >12000tonne submerged displacement SBN carrying a lower end SLBM( follows a quasi ballistic trajectory)with a range of bare 2000km for a (worthless warhead <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> ){Again I said worthless here means I myself dont even consider it as a true deterent}But all eyes were on the followup class i.e gen-II nuclear subs of Indian origin.Arihant itself is a an operational technological demonstrator.(nothing more than that).Do we think that we can scare the shit out of china with Arihant? Nah will never ever be.But china is shitting due to its followup class of boats and the fear can be see at the diplomatic channels.
I have no idea how come some images with hump started floating in the interent with no basing.