Thursday, February 12, 2009

India's secret N-submarine project nearing completion

ATV (advanced technology vessel)In a boost to India's long-standing aim to have "a nuclear weapon triad", defence minister A K Antony on Wednesday said the secretive programme to construct indigenous nuclear submarines was on the verge of completion now.

"Things are in the final stage now in the ATV (advanced technology vessel) project. There were bottlenecks earlier...they are over now," said Antony, during the ongoing Aero India-2009 here.

The hush-hush ATV project, a euphemism for the three nuclear-powered submarines being constructed at the Visakhapatnam naval dockyard, has been dogged by a series of technical hiccups since it was formally launched as far back as 1983.

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2 comments:

  1. Pete12/2/09 08:24

    Thanks Kobus

    This article will make a useful basis for my next post. Its highly likely that the ATV's are derived from the Akula II although nationalism would make the ATV designers hesitant to admit it.

    Regards

    Pete

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  2. Anonymous12/2/09 10:32

    As far as my limited knowledge of Submarines goes... the main problem was the miniaturized reactor...Now with that complete the ATV is on way.

    I wonder what they will name it.

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