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2006-05-28 India-Pakistan

India shelves ambitious nuclear missile program

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Posted by Steve White 2006-05-28 00:20|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is the missile in question

Posted by john 2006-05-28 08:31|| 2006-05-28 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Estimated 10.4 m length (without the RV), diamter 1.8m.
2 stages, solid fuel, 28 tons.

With payload of 1800 kg, range is 4400 km.
With payload of 1000 kg, range is 7200 km.

The Indian DRDO have built a submersible pontoon launcher to test underwater ballistic missile launch technology. This missile can fit that test platform.

Posted by john 2006-05-28 08:48|| 2006-05-28 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Holy moley. Now yes, an SSBN would tend to rattle cages. That looks like a launch tube on a support structure?

Posted by 6 2006-05-28 11:49|| 2006-05-28 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes but the Indian ATV project - a nuclear submarine is an SSN. It would be able to fire long range cruise missiles but would be too small for this.

And there would need to be a lot of work on navalizing the Agni-3.

An Indian SSBN would be decades away...

Posted by john 2006-05-28 14:19|| 2006-05-28 14:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless they bought one from the Ruskies.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-28 14:48|| 2006-05-28 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol - that begs a different question: How good are the Indians at naval salvage? :)

Posted by Slolulet Sletch7958 2006-05-28 14:54|| 2006-05-28 14:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Russia may be willing to lease an SSN, but now their SSBNs.

ST. PETERSBURGThe construction of a training centre for the Indian military in Sosnovy Bor, 70 kilometers west of St. Petersburg, confirms Russias intentions to lease nuclear submarines to India, said Green World Chairman Oleg Bodrov.

Sosnovy Bor is home to the Russian Training Centre for Officers of the Russian Navy which houses working nuclear reactors of the type found on nuclear submarines. These reactors are used to test nuclear fuel and other technologies applicable to nuclear submarine reactors. A building recently went up along side the training centre, where Indian specialists will apparently be schooled.

Now, according to Green World, Leasing India two third generation multi-purpose submarines with the option to buy them, as many media reports indicated in late 2004, is apparently becoming a reality.

Bodrov commented further, asking otherwise, why train some 300 Indian submariners in Russia? That constitutes 4 Akula crews.

Russian has experience in leasing nuclear subs to India. In January 1988, India leased three Soviet-era Skat classknown as Charlie class in NATO designationmulti-purpose submarines, equipped with eight nuclear missile installations. After the term of the lease ran out, the subs were returned to Russia and decommissioned.

Posted by john 2006-05-28 15:01|| 2006-05-28 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 The only ballistic missile the Indian Navy is likely to get its hands on anytime soon is the Prithvi-3, launched from the fantail of an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Suyanka class.

Posted by john 2006-05-28 15:30|| 2006-05-28 15:30|| Front Page Top

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