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Monday, December 19, 2011

Russia to lease Nerpa nuclear submarine to India by yearend

Akula II Class (RS Nerpa - INS Chakra)Russia will lease its Nerpa nuclear submarine to India by the end of the year, the head of Russia’s federal agency in charge of military and technical cooperation, Mikhail Dmitriyev, said on Friday.

“We have planned to do it by the end of the year,” Dmitriyev told journalists in Moscow.

The delivery will make India the sixth country to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after France, China, Russia, Britain and the United States.

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