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INS Arihant’s First Captain Tells The Full Story
In a first for defence news from India, Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru (Retd), the commissioning commanding officer of INS Arihant (S2), India's first indigenous nuclear-powered ballistic…
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Bigger, Better, India’s 3rd ‘Boomer’ INS Aridhaman Enters Service
India’s nuclear triad, once a nascent strategic ambition, has today achieved a level of operational maturity that places it in an elite bracket of global naval…
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3-Carrier Plan Shelved, India Wants Sharks ASAP
A long meandering debate over whether India would build a second aircraft carrier to fulfil a 3 x aircraft carrier-based naval doctrine appears to have been…
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Finally, India’s Homegrown SSN Project Kicks Off
After years of delay and uncertainty, the Indian Government approved funding Wednesday for one of India's most ambitious and crucial defence projects -- homegrown nuclear-powered attack…
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India Inducts 2nd Homegrown Boomer Arighaat
Photo via Sandeep Unnithan India today formally commissioned into service its second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) INS Arighaat -- Sanskrit for destroyer of enemies --…
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Cleared For Design Phase, Here’s All We Know So Far About India’s SSN Program
With India's long anticipated nuclear attack submarine program receiving critical government approvals this week to proceed into detailed design and development, a re-up of one Livefist's…
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Why PM Modi’s INS Arihant Message Today Was For Pakistan, Not China
Armed with up to a dozen nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, India's INS Arihant is said to have completed its first nuclear deterrent patrol last week in the…
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Nuke Submarine INS Chakra Peeps Out In New Navy Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxpk50JgDNs In a non-stop season of warfighting drills involving its most potent sea and air assets, the Indian Navy has spent the first two months of…
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REVEALED: Aggressive New Plans For India’s Nirbhay Cruise Missile
PART 2 OF THE INDIAN FUTURE WEAPONS SERIES On the morning of 7 November 2017, India's most complicated and troublesome strategic weapon finally delivered after a…
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EXCLUSIVE: What’s New In India’s Nuclear Submarine Program?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cki_rpUJKI With heightened buzz from India's nuclear submarine nursery over the imminent launch of the country's second nuclear-powered ballistic missile boat Aridhaman, we caught up with…
