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INDIA GETS NEW NUCLEAR SUBMARINE MISSILES, JOINING ONLY RUSSIA, CHINA, U.S. AND FRANCE
Newsweek ^ | 5/17/2018 | Tom O'Conner

Posted on 05/17/2018 4:58:57 PM PDT by mac_truck

India has equipped its latest nuclear-powered submarine with a new nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets up to 435 miles away, a capability enjoyed by only four other countries on Earth.

Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the military's feat during the annual Defence Research Development Organisation award ceremony Monday in New Delhi, where she recognized scientists A. Joseph and M. Ugender Reddy for their role in developing the K-15 Sagarika, also known as B-05. Sitharaman revealed that the advanced missile was officially put into service with the INS Arihant nuclear submarine.

"It is an indigenous missile with several innovative designs and a unique mechanism. Numerous critical technologies were proved in the successful trials, which paved the way for developing other long-range strategic missiles and has the potential to be launched from submarine, ship, and land," the award citation read, according to India's Zee News.

Only four other countries in the world have submarine-launched-nuclear missiles with such a range: the U.S., Russia, China and France, which—unlike India—does not have an air, land and sea nuclear triad. India is also one of only nine nations believed to possess nuclear weapons, with an arsenal estimated to be smaller than that of Russia, the U.S., France, China, the U.K. and Pakistan, but larger than that of Israel and North Korea. Like Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, India is not a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: india; missile; nuclear; submarine
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1 posted on 05/17/2018 4:58:57 PM PDT by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck

Israel has SLBMs in some of their boats. I’m sure Iran has been fully informed of this.


2 posted on 05/17/2018 5:02:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mac_truck

Doesn’t the UK have Trident SLBMs?


3 posted on 05/17/2018 5:09:48 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: The Free Engineer

I hope the Royal Navy has some plan to keep the invaders from getting access to them.


4 posted on 05/17/2018 5:14:30 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: The Free Engineer
According to Wikipedia: Trident is an operational system of four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles, able to deliver thermonuclear warheads from multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).

Yet another sterling example of leftist establishment "journalism".

5 posted on 05/17/2018 5:16:29 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Time to BLOAT again.)
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To: The Free Engineer

Yes they do. IIRC, those Trident II Missiles are cycled out, stored, and repaired in the USA. So I guess you could technically call them US Missiles, but the UK does possess Nuclear Equipped Ballistic Missile Submarines.


6 posted on 05/17/2018 5:17:16 PM PDT by PJBankard
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To: mac_truck

Newsweak needs an editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard-class_submarine
Brits have the Vanguard class SSBN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine
Israeli Dolphins have nuclear tipped cruise missiles.


7 posted on 05/17/2018 5:19:22 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: mac_truck

America needs to strengthen ties with India. Trump visit?


8 posted on 05/17/2018 5:32:54 PM PDT by Crucial
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Maybe India wants to get back at the Brits for colonialism.


9 posted on 05/17/2018 5:35:42 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: mac_truck

I hope they take care of it better then the last sub they had.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/14/18-trapped-indian-submarine-explodes-sinks-mumbai


10 posted on 05/17/2018 5:38:03 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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I hope they take care of it better then the last sub they had.

Doubtful. They haven’t even conquered clean water yet; even in a river they consider “Holy”.

11 posted on 05/17/2018 5:43:03 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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Imagine the smell inside the sub with all that currie....


12 posted on 05/17/2018 5:44:38 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Imagine the smell inside the sub with all that currie....

LOL. We were at Disney one year and we got on the tram to go back to the entrance. It was pretty busy so we grabbed whatever seat we could get. I wasn’t paying attention as we got going as I had a stroller and bags of obligatory chachkie purchases. Suddenly, it hit me in the smells really hard. An entire family about three rows ahead of us with the wind blowing straight through them onto all of us poor souls behind them. Grandparents, parents, kids. Ugh. As fast as those trams go, it wasn’t nearly fast enough.

13 posted on 05/17/2018 5:52:23 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: mac_truck

Really poor article.

The UK has had American boomers/nuclear submarines and missiles for a long time, like about 22 years.

“Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom

By the time it entered service in 1982 it had cost approx £1bn. The final Polaris/Chevaline patrol took place in 1996.


14 posted on 05/17/2018 5:53:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: mac_truck

India seems to be advancing in high tech faster than they are in low tech.


15 posted on 05/17/2018 6:07:23 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Grampa Dave

I think you’re picking at nits, the story is about INDIA’s military not those incompetent backstabbing Brits.


16 posted on 05/17/2018 6:10:02 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: minnesota_bound

That is one of the funniest articles I have read in a long time.


17 posted on 05/17/2018 6:22:39 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: mac_truck

Newsweak idiot.

Britain has the Vanguard class - 4 nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Although they have a range a lot longer than 400 miles.


18 posted on 05/17/2018 6:51:15 PM PDT by PAR35
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“those incompetent backstabbing Brits.”

That would be the US’s closest most reliable ally in the past 100 years right?

Oh wait, the US has a better friend than the Brits? I must have missed them.


19 posted on 05/17/2018 7:29:05 PM PDT by Postman Pat
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That would be the US’s closest most reliable ally in the past 100 years right?

Lol!

Yes, the same folks who colluded with the Obama administration to interfere with our election, are trying to bring down the Trump Presidency and are in the process of screwing up their own exit from the EU.

Those guys...

20 posted on 05/17/2018 8:08:28 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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