So what’s so great about INS Arihant completing its 1st deterrence patrol? Several aspects but let me list a few here: 1. The short timeline in which this has been achieved. It has taken just 5 yrs from the day the N-reactor onboard went critical in Aug 2013 to deterrence patrol
The Chinese Chin class took about nine years for a similar journey. 2. The boat is indigenously designed, developed and manufactured and so is the training methodology. The hull, internal fittings, the nuclear reactor—everything is Indian. Also best example of PPP model
The public-private partnership has spawned an entire eco-system that will give tremendous spinoffs in the years to come. The stringent safety and security protocols have been put in place thanks to best practices followed over the years
INS Arihant, an SSBN—which means not only it is nuclear powered but nuclear-missile armed too. For the uninitiated the deterrence patrol has to carry N-missiles onboard. The command and control protocols were thus tested during the 1st patrol.
Pl read Chin as Jin Class.
To achieve what is called ‘continuous deterrence at sea,’ India will have to build bigger submarines and arm them with longer range nuclear missiles in years to come. Names of at least two more are doing the rounds: INS Arindam and INs Arighat
Or is it Aridhaman?
