India knocked its new, $3 billion nuclear-missile sub out of commission — by leaving a hatch open

[TOPGUN]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lmao funniest thing of the day !!

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Damn.......

Shupa Powa... SHUPA LOSS

 

[rajiv sharma]

We can name it whatever we want. Hindus won't be there to see it though. Pity.

do some research on the word Santana dharma , many like you have come and gone , and this is a precedence . bye for now !

 

[Shamsher1990]

Isn't this an old news?

https://sputniknews.com/military/201801081060593821-india-damaged-submarine-repaired/
India's Nuclear Submarine INS Arihant Back in Service After Repairs

A media report claiming that INS Arihant had not sailed for more than ten months due to a critical damage had raised concerns, because the other nuclear submarine leased from Russia is also undergoing repairs. However, naval sources have confirmed to Sputnik that INS Arihant is back in service.

 

[MimophantSlayer]

Aaah, pakistanis enjoying some well earned schadenfreude. Literally the only things left that can bring happiness to pakistanis are our mistakes.

Well that's the most they can do after all it's not like they'll ever operate something like the Arihant.

 

[volatile]

http://www.businessinsider.com/indi...lear-missile-sub-damaged-by-open-hatch-2018-1

India knocked its new, $3 billion nuclear-missile sub out of commission — by leaving a hatch open

Jared Keller,
Task & Purpose

Jan. 9, 2018, 5:21 PM

The Arihant nuclear ballistic submarine.
Screenshot/

The modern submarine is not a simple machine. A loss of propulsion, unexpected flooding, or trouble with reactors or weapons can doom a sub crew to a watery grave.

Also, it's a good idea to, like, close the hatches before you dive.

Call it a lesson learned for the Indian navy, which managed to put the country's first nuclear-missile submarine, the $2.9 billion INS Arihant, out of commission in the most boneheaded way possible.

The Hindu reported yesterday that the Arihant has been out of commission since suffering "major damage" some 10 months ago, due to what a navy source characterized as a "human error" — to wit: allowing water to flood to sub's propulsion compartment after failing to secure one of the vessel's external hatches.

Water "rushed in as a hatch on the rear side was left open by mistake while [the Arihant] was at harbor" in February 2017, shortly after the submarine's launch, The Hindu reports. Since then, the sub "has been undergoing repairs and clean up," according to the paper: "Besides other repair work, many pipes had to be cut open and replaced."

Indian navy submarine INS Arihant at the naval warehouse in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, November 18, 2014.
Thomson Reuters


It's hard to articulate how major a f----up this is, but Kyle Mizokami does a good job at Popular Mechanics: Indian authorities ordered the pipe replacement because they "likely felt that pipes exposed to corrosive seawater couldn't be trusted again, particularly pipes that carry pressurized water coolant to and from the ship's 83 megawatt nuclear reactor." For context, a submarine assigned to Britain's Royal Navy narrowly avoided a complete reactor meltdown in 2012 after the power sources for its coolant system failed.

The incident is also quite an embarrassment — and strategic concern — for the Indian Armed Forces. A Russian Akula-class attack sub modified to accommodate a variety of ballistic missiles, the Arihant represented a major advance in India's nuclear triad after its completion in October 2016. (India in 1974 became the 6th country to conduct a successful nuclear test.)

Indeed, the Arihant's ability to deliver K-15 short-range and K-4 intermediate-range nuclear missiles was envisioned as a powerful deterrent against India's uneasy nuclear state neighbor, Pakistan.

"Arihant is the most important platform within India's nuclear triad covering land-air-sea modes," the Hindu reports. Well, it's important if it works— and it probably helps to make your submarine watertight.

This is just some sloppy, dangerous seamanship, and the Indian Navy better get its act together fast. Either that, or perhaps follow the Royal Navy's lead and install the 2001-era Windows XP as an operating system on all your most vital vessels. That way, you can blame the blue screen of death instead of "human error" for the next critical foul-up. Although even outdated software probably knows enough to dog down on all the hatches.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/ins...bout-the-sustainability-of-indias-ssbn-force/

 

[Max]

I think they are hiding real failure..

 

[Theparadox]

This is impossible. Something else must have caused it. Subs have closed compartments. Even if one hatch was open, the whole sub would not submerge.

Don't fell for it like a moron, such reports are leaked deliberately. Indian SLBM program is very secretive and thats what hurting the world most.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

from flying to sinking cofffins.

Hopeless

 

[phancong]

India always achieve the rarity in development of high tech weapon, India launched their half construct aircraft carrier, 3 yrs after launched the Aircraft carrier still need time to finish construction, nuclear submarine launched and damaged within 1 month after launched, no one ever believed the nuclear submarine was damaged because someone left the hatch open. The real reason for the submarine not in service because the submarine failed it sea trail and wouldn’t be in operational as expected.

 

[chengdusudise]

ok it mainly due to chinese fake parts

 

[my2cents]

We don't need to do anything, we can literally just let these idiots self-destruct and conquer the place afterwards.

That means you don't have eat grass after all.

 

[GodToons]

For a moment, I thought you are Asok with alter name or Asok is your alter name. reposting same news atleast 10 times in last 12 months. Cann't you see PDF prompt while creating new thread??

 

[Hamza913]

That means you don't have eat grass after all.

Nah we will continue to chow on beef instead.