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Friday, April 25, 2014

2,500kg Trinitrotoluene blows a hole in INS Sindhurakshak's salvage operations

INS SindhurakshakINS Sindhurakshak has more than 2,500 kilos of "unused" Trinitrotoluene(TNT), considered the world's deadliest explosive. And that is why salvaging the submarine is no easy task.

The Russian-made Kilo class submarine sank at the Mumbai naval dockyard on August 14 last year, following a series of explosions, claiming the lives of 18 navy men on board.

At that time, the battle-ready submarine was loaded with at least 16 torpedoes and Klub-S missiles. To be precise, there were six firing tubes and 12 racks in the submarine's nose carrying torpedoes and missiles, an officer said.

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