आ नो भद्राः क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वतोऽदब्धासो अपरीतास उद्भिदो।
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell - Carl Jung
May 23 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
0/ Been researching India's sea-based nuclear deterrent for a while now and the K-series SLBM programme is genuinely one of the more underappreciated strategic stories in modern defence
It starts not with a missile but with a moment of geopolitical hostility in 1971
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1/ In December of 1971
The US Seventh Fleet's Task Force 74, led by USS Enterprise, enters the Bay of Bengal as a coercive signal during the Indo-Pakistani War
The Soviet Navy responds by dispatching a nuclear-armed submarine flotilla from Vladivostok to shadow the Americans
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi watches all of this and quietly orders preliminary work on an indigenous nuclear-propelled submarine
