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  1. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    So S5 must already be under construction.
  2. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    If they are taken from a website nothing classified about them . Chill.
  3. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    It's not myopia but pragmatism. We can't tackle China on a global scale anytime soon . Throwing money at military in hope to match china would impede our economic progress. Hence we need to hedge with usa. That's why we are investing in quad and selling offensive weapons to Philippines and...
  4. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Horses for courses. Our naval doctrine for now is too defend Indian Ocean region for that 6 SSN are more than enough. We are not going for global sea patrol USA is there for that. Chinese will have to contend with usa and it's proxies ( aukus and japs) and only remaining few assets can...
  5. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    That's why we keep buying russian uranium for nuke plants. And uncle Sam keeps crying about it .
  6. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Our arsenal is constantly growing. By external estimates which are pretty conservative to begun with we are adding 10-20 warheads per year. Let's stick with lower number and add just 10 warheads per year. An SSBN takes almost 6-8 years to build and enter service. First S5 will enter service...
  7. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    UK and France do not face direct adverseris in their backwaters . Our SSBN will be tracked by both porkistan and china regularly. Chinese will have access to large parts of Arabian sea as they will be present on pork naval bases ( might even operate new porky submarines built by chin). In bay...
  8. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Since only 3 S5 are planned as of now . I don't think we will convert arihant to ssgn . Because using only 3 boats for deterrence is not sufficient. But this could change if more S5 class are ordered.
  9. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Not really even congress hasn't messed up with startegic programs. After all it was Indira who tested nukes first.
  10. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Yes it was chidambaram who demanded that S4 should be bigger then S3 with 8 missile tubes. And he also approved S4* so that line is not ideal untill S5 is developed.
  11. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    DRDO will anyway be working on batteries for next gen SSK / diesel electric submarines just like Japanese soryu class. But I don't know much about it .
  12. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    190 MW reactor is being developed for S5 class SSBN which were sanctioned long time ago. And are now in building stage after S4 and S4*. SSN are sanctioned only recently and the rumour is that they will use same 190mw reactor with suitable modification but it's not confirmed yet. Once SSN...
  13. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    S4 reactor is minor upgrade over 83 MW reactor . But mostly it's same.
  14. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Here is a post from strategic forums by Gautam . All credit belongs to him. @Gautam Sarkar The PMSM electric motors that we are making for the upcoming SSNs are rated at 35 MWe. The 83 MWt CLWR-B1 reactor used on the Arihant class produces around 25 MWe. The reactor does not produce enough...
  15. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    They do a good job checking tenders at strategic forums . You can read Gautam's post there to keep an eye on these programs. According to him S5 hull may already have been delivered by L&T. Ofcourse no official source. 190MW reactor work has been ongoing for quite some time but I'm not sure...
  16. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Yes it's much bigger displacing about 12000-13000 tons with a bigger 190MW reactor.
  17. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    Facility has already grown big enough. The hold up is the big reactor. But hull construction has probably already commenced.
  18. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    the last two submarines were sanctioned only on the premises that they will carry more slbm otherwise they wouldn't even be sanctioned and we would only see 2 boat arihant class and directly move to next class of ssbn . so being enlarged is pretty much the reason of existence of last two...
  19. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    It is confirmed that last two of arihant class will be bigger boats . In 2007, then finance minister P. Chidambaram, who was a member of the political committee which monitors the ATV programme, questioned the huge amount of money being spent on submarines with just 4 missile launch tubes...
  20. IndianHawk

    Indian nuclear submarines

    They have no details these are just their interpretation based on whatever info is available open source. All they know is that their death is prowling in indian Ocean. That's what deterrence is.
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