08.09.2024, 13:15
Zitat:India’s Improved Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine Enters Servicehttps://www.twz.com/sea/india-improved-n...rs-service
The second Indian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine is the latest development in a project to field a viable second-strike capability. [...]
India has introduced to service its second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, or SSBN, INS Arighat, marking a significant development in the country’s burgeoning strategic nuclear capability. [...] The new SSBN, INS Arighat — a name that means ‘destroyer of the enemy’ in Hindi — has the pennant number S3 and is the second of its kind for India after the INS Arihant, or S2, which was commissioned in August 2016. [...]
In keeping with the cloak of secrecy that surrounds much of the Indian SSBN project, the specific improvements that the new boat offers over its predecessor have not been disclosed in detail. However, one puzzling claim is that it carries more submarine-launched ballistic missiles, or SLBMs, than INS Arihant. References have otherwise been made to “more refined capabilities” in the new submarine. “While INS Arighat is of the same size, length, and displacement as INS Arihant, she can carry more K-15 missiles. The new boat is much more capable, efficient, and stealthy,” an unnamed source told The Times of India. The implication of this claim is unclear since both the INS Arihant and Arighat are reported to have four missile launch tubes, each normally accommodating a single K-15 SLBM.
Zu den technischen Daten: Ca. 111 m lang, 6.000 ts (wobei ich diese offizielle Angabe für untertrieben halte, meiner M. n. dürften min. 8.000 ts realistischer sein), ein Leichtwasserreaktor mit 83 MW, ca. 24 kn Höchstfahrt getaucht (ebenso fraglich), 300 m Tauchtiefe (offiziell, ebenso fraglich), dazu sechs Torpedorohe 533 mm und vier VLS-Zellen.
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