Indian navy to build six nuclear attack submarines

by Theleaders-Online | December 30, 2019 2:25 am

NEW DELHI: The Indian navy is planning to build a fleet of 18 conventional and six nuclear attack submarines as part of its underwater fleet, reported Xinhua News Agency, citing the Asian News International (ANI) yesterday.

“Eighteen (Conventional) plus six SSN (nuclear-powered attack) submarines are planned but the existing strength is 15 and 1 SSN is available on lease,” the news agency quoted a report of India’s standing committee on defence as saying.

According to the news agency, Indian navy is operating Russian-made Kilo Class, German-made HDW class and the latest French Scorpene-class submarines in the conventional domain while in the nuclear section, it has leased one INS Chakra (Akula class) from Russia.

“The navy also informed the committee that in the last 15 years, only two new conventional submarines have been inducted including the Scorpene-class vessels INS Kalvari and the INS Khanderi. It was further informed that the existing 13 conventional submarines are between 17 to 31 years old.” the report said.

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