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Development of China's fourth-generation nuclear submarine completed At the recent 2013 Four Northeastern Provinces Cooperation Leaders' Conference held in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Tan Zuojun, vice governor of Liaoning Province and former general manager of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, revealed that development of China's fourth-generation nuclear submarines and other high-tech weapons and items of equipment in the Northeastern Provinces of China had been completed. The news attracted considerable attention. The fourth generation nuclear submarine features high performance and low noise Military expert Du Wenlong pointed out that the main characteristic of the fourth generation nuclear submarine would be its high performance....

Lula Wants His Yellow Submarine Nuclear-R-Us: Is Brazil's proposed Construction of a Nuclear Submarine the result of Imperial Ambitions or a matter of diving to the depths of pandering politics on Lula's part? * Lula reignites the dream of the military junta: a nuclear submarine of its own. * Washington derides Iran's and North Korea's nuclear plans but mums the word when it comes to Brazil. * Is the Brazilian navy expecting to be attacked on the high seas by some far off land, or, is a new militarized geopolitical strategy being evolved by Brasilia, or, is Lula merely being...

Nuclear submarine not a distant dream Josy Joseph Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:29 IST Two-decade project should be ready for sea trial in 2009 NEW DELHI: The defence establishment is making stunning progress in developing its underwater ability to launch nuclear missiles, the most assured means of launching weapons without enemy detection. The development of a nuclear submarine and nuclear-capable missile would result in India joining an exclusive club of five countries. The most potent ability in the nuclear triad — the other two being land and air based nuclear capability — the underwater capability is much closer to realisation...

N-submarine may be operational by 2012 Rajat Pandit [ 18 Mar, 2007 2329hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] NEW DELHI: After a series of technical hiccups, India's long-running project to build nuclear submarines is finally gaining momentum. As per the revised target, the Navy is likely to get the first such operational submarine by 2012. Sources said this was the "general assessment" at a top-level meeting to review progress of the hush-hush Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) programme on Friday, which was attended by defence minister A K Antony, among others. Though official word is hard to come by on the secretive...

No plans to commission Belgorod nuclear submarine - minister 15:29 | 20/ 07/ 2006 SEVERODVINSK, July 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's defense minister said Thursday the ministry would not allocate funds to finish building a nuclear submarine in the same class as the doomed Kursk submarine and hinted it could be sold. "The Defense Ministry does not need the Belgorod nuclear submarine," Sergei Ivanov said. "Therefore it will not finance its further construction." The Oscar-II class Belgorod was laid in July 1992. Its construction, frozen in 1990s, was resumed after the K-141 Kursk nuclear submarine of the same class sank...

Thales UK offers to sell sub-systems for India's N-subs Press Trust of India Glasgow, July 9, 2006 British defence majors are expressing readiness to export frontline weapons technology to India and 'Thales UK' has even offered to sell some critical sub-systems for New Delhi's top secret nuclear submarine project. "Here we have developed a non-hull penetrating technology to remove cumbersome periscopes from submarines. And we are ready to offer this technology for India's upgraded Kilo class submarines and its Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV)," Peter Mcbride, Director Naval exports of the company said. Thales is making these non-penetrating hull masts and...

The Mythical Indian SSN Goes to Sea July 6, 2006: The long rumored, but much denied, deal for Indian to lease one, or two, Russian Akula II class nuclear attack subs, is hot news once more. That's because one of the Akula II subs, the Nerpa, was recently launched at the Russian Pacific shipyards. The Nerpa will be completed and undergo sea trials next year. In 2002, the stories began to appear, that India was leasing one, or two, Russian nuclear attack submarines (SSN). Eventually, both India and Russia denied the deal, which was promptly renamed as "a secret deal."...

N-sub for Indian Navy goes on trial in Russian seas PTI Saturday, July 01, 2006 19:43 IST MOSCOW: A Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine to be leased to the Indian Navy has begun sea trials. The submarine, which went on sea trials on June 24, would be leased to the Indian Navy after its formal induction in to the Russian Pacific Fleet next year, Vedomosti daily reported on Saturday. The Amursky Shipyard based in Komsomolsk-on-Amur just across the Chinese border launched the construction of Nerpa nuclear-power submarine (project 971, type Shchuka-B) in 1991. "The contract concluded with India (around 2004) on completing...

Nuclear-sub project gathers steam RAJAT PANDIT TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2005 10:31:22 PM ] NEW DELHI: By the end of this decade, India should have a fully-operational nuclear submarine of its own. The Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project to build a nuclear-powered, guided-missile attack submarine is now on track after years of technical glitches and design problems. "The first functional ATV should be ready for trials by 2007-08. The technical problems, including fitting a miniaturised pressurised water reactor (PWR) and its containment vessel in the submarine’s hull, have more or less been sorted out,"says a top source. Sources...