Arihant Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines

shuvo@y2k10 said:
Any news about the status of the follow on SSN submarines, after the Arihant class?
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Indian Navy's SSN class submarines will be powered by CLWR-B2 Compact Light-water reactor of 190 MW.

The new design, according to sources at idrw.org, is complete and awaits funding clearance before construction of a land based prototype can begin.

India’s Next-Gen Nuclear Submarines: S5 Class to Pack a Punch with Powerful New Reactor – Indian Defence Research Wing

idrw.org idrw.org
 
Blademaster said:
Right so SSN have higher power requirements than a boomer?
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Yes. Our SSN will sit between Los Angeles class and Virginia class of USA.

Same reactor can power a SSBN with 70-80% higher displacement.
 
Wikipedia has altered its page on Arihant and the K4( 3500 km range ). Before , they stated that K4 was tested once from Arihant itself. Now, they're saying any of the long range missiles were tested only from pontoons. Is that correct?
 
Varoon4 said:
It was built and mostly developed indigenously, right? Though the design is influenced by the Akula reactor. You figure that Russian assistance would be much less in the Arighat.
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Scientist working on this is quite good with small reactor design, so highly indigenous system, maybe some assistance
 
Varoon4 said:
Wikipedia has altered its page on Arihant and the K4( 3500 km range ). Before , they stated that K4 was tested once from Arihant itself. Now, they're saying any of the long range missiles were tested only from pontoons. Is that correct?
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Some articles say pontoon in 2020, some say Arihant. That editor chose what he wanted to believe. There is another test in 2016 which is said to be from Arihant.
 
Varoon4 said:
Wikipedia has altered its page on Arihant and the K4( 3500 km range ). Before , they stated that K4 was tested once from Arihant itself. Now, they're saying any of the long range missiles were tested only from pontoons. Is that correct?
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Who cares? Let disinformation run free less our enemies learn our true capabilities.
 
Varoon4 said:
Wikipedia has altered its page on Arihant and the K4( 3500 km range ). Before , they stated that K4 was tested once from Arihant itself. Now, they're saying any of the long range missiles were tested only from pontoons. Is that correct?
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Generally, the top tier missile testing by DRDO is very much shrouded in secrecy for long time. I had an conversation with an NAL scientist known through our relative during 2018 after the first SFDR launch. While the official media news is the Missile failed but he simply told the test was indeed successful and DRDO simply withhold the information.

Also, we came across dozens of Prithvi missile testing for decades now. Prithvi is such an old missile and it is pretty much we can speculate that DRDO is testing some new missiles but just simply not providing any tidbits to common people.

Same situation is going with SSBN and SSN a lot of manufacturing infra is upgraded in HSL but we rarely heard about them compared to MSL, GRSE, CSL ship building capabilities. The subs activity also very much in secrecy and we are getting tidbits in a very delayed fashion.
 
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