Nuclear propulsion being completely independent of air frees the submarine from the need to surface frequently as is necessary for conventional submarines the large amount of power generated by a nuclear. A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor the performance advantages of nuclear submarines over conventional typically diesel electric submarines are considerable. 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. France s naval group is currently building the barracuda class ssns for the french navy. The french are likely to offer partnership in designing and building these submarines in india.
India has an ambitious programme to build six nuclear powered attack submarines at an approximate cost of over 100 000 crore. This submarine is powered by nuclear fuel 40 enriched uranium. This submarine is technologically more superior than other submarines of indian navy.
Arihant which means annihilator of enemies is india s first indigenous nuclear powered submarine. Ins arihant is the state of art submarine developed by indian navy. 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 a special alloy for the hull a scale model is likely to be tested soon as part of the design process.
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. Aside from these attack submarines india is in the process of building nuclear powered nuclear armed submarines and has built two so far but neither has begun patrols. India s ins vela a diesel electric attack submarine seen in 2019.
1 870 tonnes karanj and vela are under sea trials.
Indian nuclear submarine. 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. The vessels are classified as strategic strike nuclear submarines by india. Nuclear submarines 1 arihant class. Ballistic missile submarine ssbn ins arighat.
Unknown but greater than 6 000 tonnes arighat has been launched. Diesel electric submarines 5 kalvari class. Ins karanj ins vela ins vagir ins vagsheer.
Ins karanj ins vela ins vagir ins vagsheer. Diesel electric submarines 5 kalvari class. Unknown but greater than 6 000 tonnes arighat has been launched.
Ballistic missile submarine ssbn ins arighat. Nuclear submarines 1 arihant class. 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.
