INS Chakra/Akula II

[sayareakd]

are we going to get second one too ???

 

[Kunal Biswas]

There is only one..

 

[bhramos]

$920 million Russian 'hunk' handed over to Indian Navy - Rediff.com News

 

[Zebra]

Russia Hands Over Nuke Sub Nerpa to India: Report .

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE , Published: 30 Dec 2011 10:48

MOSCOW - Russia has handed over the nuclear-powered attack submarine Nerpa to India following more than two years of delays, a senior naval official was quoted as saying Dec. 30.

A 2004 FILE photo shows the Akula-class Vepr Russian nuclear submarine, the same type as the Nerpa sub Russia handed over to India on Dec. 30 following more than two years of delays. (Fred Tanneau / AFP)

"The signing ceremony happened yesterday at the Bolshoi Kamen ship building facility in the (Far East) Primorye region where the Nerpa is now based," the official in the naval chief of staff told ITAR-TASS.

Russian reports said an Indian crew would sail the Akula II class craft to its home base at the end of January after receiving it on a 10-year lease that has angered India's arch-rival Pakistan and resulted in retaliation threats.

The craft is due to reach its Bay of Bengal base of Visakhapatnam under the Indian flag in February and be commissioned by the navy in March.

"All of the naval tests and performance checks have been completed," the Russian official said. "The crew will begin making themselves feel at home on board the craft after New Year and start sailing it to India in the latter half of January."

An unnamed Russian official at the Amur district facility where the Nerpa was built added that the "Indian side is fully satisfied by the volume and quality of the tests" completed on the Nerpa at sea.

The Nerpa will be the first nuclear-powered submarine to be operated by India in nearly two decades after it decommissioned its last such Soviet-built vessel in 1991.

India is completing the development of its own Arihant-classnuclear-powered ballistic submarines and the Nerpa's delivery is expected to help crews train for the domestic boat's introduction into service next year.

The Russian Pacific port ceremony was held on the same day that a shipyard fire engulfed the Northern Fleet's Yekaterinburg nuclear-powered strategic submarine in the Murmansk region on the opposite side of the country.

The Nerpa had initially been due to be handed over to India in 2009 but experienced various problems during testing. It suffered a mishap during trials in the Sea of Japan in November 2008 that killed 20 sailors when a fire extinguisher released a deadly chemical that was accidentally loaded into the system.

Media reports said that some of the ship's equipment malfunctioned during testing and that the weapons navigation system did not work to India's specifications.

The 8,140-ton vessel can fire a range of torpedoes as well as Granat cruise missiles that can be nuclear-tipped. India has promised not to arm the submarine with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles under its obligations to international treaties it adopted after conducting a series of atomic tests in the 1990s.

But the craft's delivery has still upset Pakistan.

"Rest assured, there will be no compromise in terms of maintaining the credibility of our deterrence," Pakistan foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit was quoted as saying by The Asian Age newspaper this week.

The submarine is due to be commissioned as the INS Chakra in India under a2004 agreement that has seen the South Asian giant pay $650 million in construction costs.

Newspaper reports in India said New Delhi may end up paying as much as $900 million under the terms of the deal. Russia's RIA Novosti news agencies valued the contract at $920 million.

Russia supplies 70 percent of India's military hardware but New Delhi has been unhappy about delays to arms orders from Moscow and has looked to other suppliers including Israel and the United States in recent years.

 

[debasree]

great :thumb:

 

[Tshering22]

Finally it is here! I was tired of reading "may come soon", "is coming now".

 

[Patriot]

One more good news at the End of year 2011. Keeping fingers crossed for INS vikramaditya in 2012. Cheers

 

[Galaxy]

Finally, Indian Navy Gets Russian Nuke Sub: Reports

Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reports that the K-152 Nerpa Akula-II class nuclear-powered submarine was handed over to the Indian Navy on Saturday at the Bolshoi Kamen shipbuilding facility in the East. The navy, which will call it INS Chakra, will operate the submarine on a ten year lease, and ostensibly use it as a test platform to train crews in operating a nuclear submarine. The ITAR-TASS report says the Nerpa will sail for India in January. It's home base will be Visakhapatnam.

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/12/finally-indian-navy-gets-russian-nuke.html?

 

[Ray]

Great stuff.

It will add teeth to the IN.

 

[natarajan]

what is that ship along with nerpa

 

[noob101]

what is that ship along with nerpa

That is a Sovremenny class destroyer according to the hull no. 715 its named Bystryy part of the pacific fleet. you can tell by the cell of 4 moskit missiles and the way the hull is curved behind the missiles to deflect exhaust also the bow and stern ak 130

 

[noob101]

Does anyone know about the 2nd Akula that India was supposed lease?

 

[Bhartiya]

Looks quite similar to arihant

 

[bhramos]

Pakistan's take on India's Nuclear Submarine.
Indian war hysteria, for what? - The Nation

 

[bhramos]

Indian Navy gets boost with inclusion of submarine Nerpa

 

[Dovah]

Pakistan's take on India's Nuclear Submarine.
Indian war hysteria, for what? - The Nation

Lol when the Pukes start to diss you, you know you're doing great.

 

[sayareakd]

Lol when the Pukes start to diss you, you know you're doing great.

i cannot open that page.

 

[Dovah]

i cannot open that page.

The news of India acquiring a nuclear submarine from Russia has caused ripples of anxiety throughout the South Asian region. Costing a great deal, this Indian weapons procurement spree is quite disturbing. One only wonders why it is that New Delhi is spending so much money on armament, when it has millions of poverty stricken people dying daily of disease and hunger. Besides, when its neighbours Pakistan and others are only for peaceful coexistence through settlement of extraordinary issues like Kashmir, why such escalation? Pakistan's nuclear programme is to maintain minimum deterrence after New Delhi became a nuclear power and to maintain a balance of power in the region.
Broadly speaking the military-industrial complex run by men motivated by greed and greed only thrive because of conflicts and wars around the world. Ultimately, these people's gain would be endless chaos, blood and misery. The fascists and totalitarian regimes and their leaders like Mussolini and others would constantly chant hymns in praise of weapons and war equipment. For them tanks, guns, and fighter jets were art at its most beautiful. But the black hole of death and destruction in which they hurled the planet is also no secret from the world. The pristine waters of the Indian ocean, will be pristine no longer, quite soon. Further armament and further escalation between two nuclear armed countries is in the better interest of no one in the world. India unfortunately wants to tread the path of bullying and provocation. Kashmir is rightly called a heaven on earth, such is its scenic beauty; but it is guns, armed soldiers, mass graves, torture and cries of the oppressed that have turned the paradise into a horrific wilderness. The reign of terror unleashed by India has woken up intellectuals like Arundhati Roy to rebel against their country and call for its speedy resolution.
India can never make itself secure with the help of nuclear submarines or missiles. It has to come to terms with the reality that it must settle the core issue with Pakistan and learn to live as a peaceful neighbour.

Here's the article(read juvenile Paki rant)

 

[natarajan]

what are the arnaments its going to carry in addition to torpedos,will it carry any missile ?

 

[noob101]

Lol when the Pukes start to diss you, you know you're doing great.

The most noteworthy point is that the Pakis feel that India leased the Akula to counter the PN. Did they completely forget that it was 3 small missile boats that destroyed the PN back in 71 in less than an hour. They really should realize if there is another war none of the rust buckets of the PN will survive it and the IN wouldn't need the Akula to do it.