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Impossible. Different roles, different designs.
Can you even begin to imagine the ruckus if a theoretical "joint" SSBN/SSN ATV was sunk? That's a few SLBMs on the seabed and radiation in your seafood!
But Jliu, what about cost of operating those subs. The point is if a SSBN ATV is sunk, then also we have the same problem. I think IN will stick to joint SSBN?SSN role or may be some ATV will have the role of SSBN and some of SSN.
Ok, so how you kill other submarines/ships.I know this post wasn't addressed to me but I'll add my two bits here; sorry if this is inappropriate.
The cost won't be a major concern; pretty soon the IN will be getting more share of the defense budget. Once the number of shipyards (public and private) increases, our foreign purchases (frigates, destroyers, etc.) will reduce as well.
An SSBNs role is to maintain the country's strategic nuclear deterent. It isn't meant to be involved in clashes with other submarines. The ATV won't be patrolling "near" India; hence, sinking it is much more difficult for it isn't easy to find an SSBN (the reason being their area of operations can be anywhere). An SSN on the other hand is meant to search and destroy enemy submarines and ships and maintain area deniability (I may be wrong).
The two are different and the IN would be foolish to operate a submarine that doubles up as both. The submarine can't work as a true SSBN (thus restricting strategic advantage); neither can it work as a true SSN (restricting operations).
Our SSN may have cruise-missile VLS capability.
Ok, so how you kill other submarines/ships.
You fire a torpedo, kill and scoot. So does SSBN don't have torpedo tubes or what?
Ofcourse it does; but hunting is not its primary role. Its role is to maintain the country's nuclear arsenal.
Suppose an SSBN is hunting for enemy SSKs/SSNs and gets torpedoed in the process. Besides the reactor, there are 10+ nuclear SLBMs that go down with it. Forget the ecological disaster (a submarine's reactor is any day safer than a warhead), this is a serious strategic loss.
Further, the job of an SSBN is to hide (usually places where it is difficult to find, i.e., far from home waters) and then launch its SLBMs on the enemy as a second strike. It isn't meant to scout for enemy submarines. If it does encounter them it should run, and if not possible, defend.
That is why the SSBN and SSN would be seperate.
But Jliu, what about cost of operating those subs. The point is if a SSBN ATV is sunk, then also we have the same problem. I think IN will stick to joint SSBN?SSN role or may be some ATV will have the role of SSBN and some of SSN.
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=454032
Naval chief visits France ahead of global submarine tenders
New Delhi, July 08: With the Navy on the verge of floating global tenders to buy more submarines, Naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta has begun a six-day tour of France, a major supplier of subs to India.
In a multi-billion euro deal inked in 2006, India is to produce six French Scorpene submarines under technology transfer at state-owned Mazagoan docks limited in Mumbai. The first of these submarines is expected to roll out by 2011.
Mehta recently told media persons that India would soon float international tenders for opening the country's second line of submarine production. DCN international, makers of the Scorpene submarines along with Germand HDW, Russian firms and Swedish sub makers would be vying for the deal.
Under a 20-year submarine perspective plan, Indian Navy hopes to acquire 24 submarines by the year 2020.