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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

India ups ante on coastal security

Akula class submarineIndia's first indigenously developed nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant (destroyer of enemies) equipped with twelve K-15 ballistic missile with a range of 700-kms was launched on July 26 by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Speaking at the function held as part of the launching of the submarine at the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam, the Prime Minister observed that India had finally joined the elite group of five countries, US, UK, Russia, France and China, capable of building nuclear-powered under-sea vessels.

The 110-mt long, 11-metre wide INS Arihant capable of displacing 6,000 tons of water will have to go through harbour, sea and weapons trials before becoming fully operational and this process is expected to take a minimum of two years for completion.

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