India makes headway with ELF site construction

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India makes headway with ELF site construction

India makes headway with ELF site construction

Imagery taken by DigitalGlobe in January 2013 provides an update on the construction of India's new Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) facility in the south of the country.
The construction began in March 2012, when Admiral Nirmal Verma, chief of the naval staff of the Indian Navy (IN), laid the cornerstone for the ELF facility near the village of Vijaya Narayanam, about 23 km north of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. It is co-located with the IN's Very Low-Frequency (VLF) communications station, which transmits at 18.2 kHz.
The ELF station, which is believed to be being built by Indian firm Larsen & Toubro, will have nuclear-hardened bunkers and is expected to be commissioned in 2015. Russia is closely associated with the research and development for the facility, which is expected to be similar to Russia's own ELF transmitter at the ZEVS facility near Murmansk.
ELF transmission is used to communicate very brief commands to submerged submarines. Such transmissions can travel thousands of miles and through extended depths of seawater. ELF transmissions are generally initiated during circumstances in which conventional communications channels have been disrupted or destroyed.
 

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So this faculty is builted to have communication with our Nuclear submarine fleet. Btw, Since this new faculty is builted by a western company, Is there any kind of risk like finding our nuke subs?


The IN Tu-142 aircrafts will also used to maintain communication with the Nuclear Submarines.

Defense News reported in March 2004 that the Indian Navy had requested new avionics and electronic warfare suites for the Tu-142, for the detection and interception of surface vessels and submarines within a range of 150 kilometres, as well as the capability to detect mines and carry out long-range and long-endurance surveillance. The upgrade is also expected to enable the aircraft to be linked to the Indian satellite navigation system and be fitted with an observation system that will work in night and day. The primary ambition of the upgrade is to conduct maritime patrol missions and forge a linkage between India's nuclear command center and its futuristic nuclear submarine. The upgrade will further enable the aircraft to carry air-launched versions of the Klub and BrahMos ASCMs.
Bharat-Rakshak.com :: NAVY - Tupolev Tu-142M
 

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So this faculty is builted to have communication with our Nuclear submarine fleet. Btw, Since this new faculty is builted by a western company, Is there any kind of risk like finding our nuke subs?


The IN Tu-142 aircrafts will also used to maintain communication with the Nuclear Submarines. Probably superior to Admiral Nirmal Verma, chief of the naval staff of the Indian Navy (IN).


Bharat-Rakshak.com :: NAVY - Tupolev Tu-142M
Somebody decided to trust the Russians. Probably superior to Admiral Nirmal Verma, chief of the naval staff of the Indian Navy (IN)
 

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So this faculty is builted to have communication with our Nuclear submarine fleet. Btw, Since this new faculty is builted by a western company, Is there any kind of risk like finding our nuke subs?
The Russians know far more about us than just this station.

Rubin Design Bureau is the primary foreign partner for Arihant. They know pretty much everything about our nuke sub capability.

The fact is we trust them, so there is little issue here.
 

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Sensitive issues are not shared to no one not even the basic, let it be Navy / Air force or Army about tactical procedure..
 

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'ELF communication' is jam proof from both natural and man-made interference can communicate for long distances.
Circumstances in which conventional communications channels have been disrupted or destroyed, Plays an important role in 'Second Strike'.


What is 'Second Strike'?
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In nuclear strategy, a second-strike capability is a country's assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear retaliation against the attacker. To have such an ability (and to convince an opponent of its viability) is considered vital in nuclear deterrence, as otherwise the other side might be tempted to try to win a nuclear war in one massive first strike against its opponent's own nuclear forces.
The 'nuclear triad' is a way for countries to diversify their nuclear arsenals in order to better ensure second strike capability.

'Submarine-launched ballistic missiles' are the traditional, but very expensive, method of providing a second strike capability.

Second strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Mutual assured destruction' (MAD):

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) theory(Robert McNamara) is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides(nations) would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use of the very same weapons. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium, in which both sides are attempting to avoid their worst possible outcome— Dooms Day (Nuclear annihilation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

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