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Friday, October 31, 2008

Speculation mounts about Indian lease of new Russian nuclear attack sub news

The Russian Amur shipyard, located in the country's Far East, said early on in the week that it had begun sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, a Schucka -B or Akula II (NATO designation) class, which persistent media reporting has identified as being constructed with Indian finances prior to being given out on long lease to the Indian Navy.

The Akula II or Schucka-class vessels are considered the quietest and deadliest of Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines.

"The submarine, built under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, has been moved from the shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a maintenance facility in the Primorye Territory and fitted with all necessary equipment. At present it is undergoing sea trials," a spokesman for the shipyard told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

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