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India Preparing Second Ballistic-Missile Sub
India is completing work on a second home-built submarine intended to carry nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, the Indo-Asian News Service reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 14)."The second one will be ready and will take lesser time" to place into service, said retired Vice Adm. Mihir Roy, a former Indian navy officer once involved with the submarine project. The INS Arihant, India's first indigenously developed submarine, formally began three years of planned sea trials late last month Posted by: john frum 2009-08-20 |
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