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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Akula class n-powered sub to be used for crew training

The Russian-built nuclear-powered Akula-II class attack submarine that will be delivered to India by next year on a 10-year lease will primarily be used to train crews to operate this kind of a vessel.

Partly financed by India under a hush-hush deal signed with Russia in January 2004, the 12,000-ton submarine was been built at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur shipyard in Russia. It will be commissioned into the Indian Navy as INS Chakra.

‘After various delays, the nuclear-powered vessel (Akula) for crew training will come some time next year,’ Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said.

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