India Nuclear Submarine

Indian Navy's second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, INS Arighaat, is capable of carrying up to four nuclear-capable 3,500-kilometre-range K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missiles

As per the plans, the Indian Navy will get two nuclear-powered attack submarines which will help boost its capabilities manifold in the Indian Ocean Region

Typically smaller and more agile, SSNs are optimised for speed and manoeuvrability, while SSBNs are larger, and designed to carry and launch SLBMs from vertical launch systems

India's second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, the INS Arighat, was inducted into the Indian Navy on Thursday

Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars (USD 3 billion) to British industry to support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and ensure its new fleet arrives on time, the two countries said Friday. The announcement came a day after the two countries signed a defense and security pact to better meet challenges such as China's increased activity in the South China Sea and South Pacific. UK Defense Minister Grant Shapps said the submarine program was expensive but necessary. Nuclear-powered submarines are not cheap, but we live in a much more dangerous world where we are seeing a much more assertive region with China, a much more dangerous world all around with what's happening in the Middle East and Europe, Shapps told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Countries need to invest in making sure that adversaries see we are serious about our security, defending freedom of navigation, for example. The 10-year deal announced at an annual ministers' gather

China on Friday withdrew a draft resolution at the IAEA against the AUKUS grouping seeking to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines following India's objective view on the issue, sources said. China tried to get the resolution passed at the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which took place in Vienna from September 26 to 30. The AUKUS (Australia, the UK and the US) security partnership announced in September last it would facilitate Australia getting technology to build nuclear-powered submarines. The sources said China argued that this initiative was in violation of their responsibilities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It also criticised the role of IAEA in this regard. "India took an objective view of the initiative, recognising the soundness of the technical evaluation by IAEA. The Indian Mission to the IAEA in Vienna worked closely with many IAEA member states in this regard," said a source. "India's considered r

Navy's plan to build 24 subs is too ambitious

In its report tabled this month, the Navy stated that there are presently 15 conventional submarines and two nuclear submarines in its fleet.

In a press conference on the eve of Navy Day, Admiral Lanba also touched on a range of key issues confronting the Navy

Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba refused to divulge further details about the 'classified project'