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August 21, 2014

INS Arihant - India's first indigenously build nuclear powered submarine

This is the first clear image of the the nuclear powered submarine being built as part of a top secret project on the eastern coast of India in Visakhapatnam.

INS Arihant is the first of a class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines with a displacement of 6,000 tonnes.The submarine is powered by 83MW pressurized water reactor and can carry four nuclear-tipped K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missiles having a range of 3,500 kilometres or a dozen K-15 missiles which have a range of 700 kilometres.

Photo - DRDO India




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