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Nope. India is working on S5 class submarines and work I believe is already started. This one is a bigger one at 13,500 tons displacement. And 3 of them are planned to be constructed. India will more likely have 8-10 SSBN's. With respect to Nuclear attack there is no clear time frame yet since...

@Super Flanker has already explained why SSN's are needed. From the Indian Navy perspective they will use a mix of AIP subs and SSN's. SSBN's are used in defensive role that is nuclear second strike capability when all your nuclear sites are wiped out. I doubt we will ever come to that since MAD...

Your wish will be fulfilled on Pakistani soil one day.

Maybe we should ask French if they are willing to lend us a helping hand in SSN's in return for few Euros provided we get some crucial technology of reactor, pumpjet propulsion used in their Barracuda subs?

I am not particularly well informed with respect to technology of submarines. I just have only surface knowledge. I know we would have definitely underreported the range of the missiles. I would like to know few things. We will anyway be building limited number of SSBN's. The more range the...

Our first SSBN has missiles which have a range of just 750 kms. Since the submarine is small I can understand why the missiles have short range. It's obvious this SSBN second strike capability is meant for Pakistan. However even the subsequent SSBN's have missiles with ranges of just 3,500 km...