And conventional powered and nuclear powered submarines. As of 2014 the indian navy has 41 vessels of various types under construction including an aircraft carrier. The indian navy has been focusing on developing indigenous platforms systems sensors and weapons as part of the nation s modernisation and expansion of its maritime forces.
These will be designed by the navy s in house directorate of naval design and indigenously built in the shipbuilding center at visakhapatnam since india is a traditional user of russian nuclear submarines with ins chakra on lease the new domestically built submarines would. The government of india approved the construction of six new nuclear powered attack submarines ssn in february 2015. Work has started on the rs 1 lakh crore project to produce next generation nuclear powered submarines for the indian navy with a defence public sector unit working on.
Agencies the plan to build six nuclear powered attack submarines ssns kicked off in 2015 when the nda government gave a go ahead to a long pending project for the indian navy. It is a charlie class submarine that was decommissioned in january 1991. The nuclear powered attack submarine decommissioned by the indian navy is ins chakra k 43.
Call it a lesson learned for the indian navy which managed to put the country s first nuclear missile submarine the 2 9 billion ins arihant out of commission in the most boneheaded way. The indian navy had planned to build six nuclear attack submarines along with the arihant class ssbns at present the navy is operating russian origin kilo class german origin hdw class and the. The most visible aspect of india s programs are new nuclear powered submarines that are being built but beneath the surface.
The indian navy is discretely building up its submarine capabilities. He says that it will. Submarine warfare expert aaron amick author of the sub brief podcast believes that aip will give the indian navy strategy advantages over the current non nuclear submarines.
The vessels are classified as strategic strike nuclear submarines by india. The arihant class sanskrit for slayer of enemies is a class of nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines being built for the indian navy they were developed under the 90 000 crore us 13 billion advanced technology vessel atv project to design and build nuclear powered submarines. 8 140 tonnes under a 10 year lease from russia since 2012.
Attack submarine ssn ins chakra.
Indian navy nuclear submarine. This is a list of submarines of the indian navy grouped by class and ordered by pennant numbers within the class. Class picture type boats origin displacement note nuclear powered submarines 2 chakra akula ii class.
Class picture type boats origin displacement note nuclear powered submarines 2 chakra akula ii class. This is a list of submarines of the indian navy grouped by class and ordered by pennant numbers within the class.
