India’s first nuclear submarine INS Arihant ready for operations, passes deep sea tes

[V.Balasubramani]

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India’s first nuclear submarine INS Arihant ready for operations, passes deep sea tests

NEW DELHI: India's first nuclear armed submarine is now ready for full fledged operations, having passed several deep sea diving drills as well as weapons launch tests over the past five months and a formal induction into the naval fleet is only a political call away.

Multiple officials closely associated with the project to operationalize the INS Arihant nuclear missile submarine have confirmed to ET that the indigenously-built boat is now fully-operational and over the past few months, several weapon tests have taken place in secrecy that have proven the capabilities of the vessel.


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[yesmohan]

INS Arihant coupled with Vijayanarayanam Naval base, India will become an formidable Naval force in the continent!!

Vijayanarayanam Naval base could communicate with under water submarines which are even far away and capable of intercepting any communication in under water as well in aerial. It was told in 1990s that the naval was the first of its kind in Asia.
Koodankulam project was actually selected to be located there because of naval Surveillance was available from nearby Vijayanarayanam to strategically protect the project.