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India's "baby boomer"
Located up the winding shipping channel in Visakhapatnam harbour is a secret, completely enclosed facility known only as the Shipbuilding Centre (SBC).Inside this dry dock, nearly 50m below ground level, is a cylindrical black shape, which is as tall as a two-storey building and at 104 m in length, is longer than the Qutub Minar lying on its side. Technicians working on it confess to a surge of national pride: Indias first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine or SSBN is arguably its greatest engineering project.
Posted by: john frum 2008-01-19 |
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