Posted on 04/19/2016 5:07:11 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
India’s first submarine capable of firing nuclear ballistic missiles, the INS Arihant, is undergoing sea acceptance trials and will be commissioned after their completion, the Navy has announced.
"INS Arihant is now undergoing sea acceptance trails as it had already passed several deep sea diving drills. The submarine will be commissioned after completing all the sea trials," said H.C.S. Bisht, Vice Admiral of the Indian Navy.
The 6,000-ton vessel is the first nuclear-powered submarine that can launch nuclear-capable missiles manufactured by India – the first nation to announce it has accomplished this feat after the five original nuclear powers. It was built at the Ship Building Centre in Visakhapatnam, one of 13 major ports in India, with some help from Russian specialists and launched in 2009.
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If it works like all the code I seen them write it will submerge and go in circles before running out of memory and block shipping all over the world.
Pretty small boomer. Almost same tonnage as a 688 class.
Can you imagine the smell on that thing after it has been submerged for 90 days? Egads!
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