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The above article says India will develop those 6 indigenous SSNs with Russian assistance. Whether it is going to be similar to Yasen class or Akula II class we don't know yet. But all I can say it is good for Indian Navy's submarine fleet.

India should make a copy of these Akula II class submaries for its indigenous SSN project. Leasing Nuclear submarines from Russia for just 10 years is very expensive and does not make sense.

I think right now India should learn to make its own akula class type submarines (if possible) after arihant SSBN class is complete. DRDO & Directorate of Naval Design should make maximum effort to learn more about these akula class leased to India (even its power reactor). The current...

Akula class submarine leased to India is a nuclear attack submarine with a double hull system composed of an inner pressure hull and an outer "light" hull. This allows more freedom in the design of the exterior hull shape, resulting in a submarine with more reserve buoyancy than its western...