INS Arihant left crippled after ‘accident’ 10 months ago

[MimophantSlayer]

A thread on any indian failure and see the numbers of chinese,pakistanis on it. See their attempts to portray india as failed ..unthinkable ..

Of course they are, everyone loves a little schadenfreude especially when the news of a "failure" emerges, and its your enemy, and when the said enemy has been progressing faster than you had not initially expected.

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

A thread on any indian failure and see the numbers of chinese,pakistanis on it. See their attempts to portray india as failed ..unthinkable ..

it would be foolish of us to expect otherwise from our enemies !

 

[faithfulguy]

A thread on any indian failure and see the numbers of chinese,pakistanis on it. See their attempts to portray india as failed ..unthinkable ..

Only India can portrait itself as a failed state. No one is defacating in India except Indians, no one is causing the mig to drop like flies or thesub accidents on the pier except Indians.

Indians need to be responsible instead of attacking others when accidents happen in India.

 

[volatile]

Here stop blaming Russian equipment as russian equipment are as good as any western name it SU flankers ,T-90 and many other weapon systems here the difference is operators ,IN and AF is known notorious to flop any aircraft``

 

[Taimoor Khan]

A thread on any indian failure and see the numbers of chinese,pakistanis on it. See their attempts to portray india as failed ..unthinkable ..

Are the authors of this article not labeled anti India, anti Hindu, anti nationalist, muslim loving scumbags yet?

 

[ashok321]

Fire on board warship INS Shivalik:

 

[ranadd]

Are the authors of this article not labeled anti India, anti Hindu, anti nationalist, muslim loving scumbags yet?

No

 

[Taimoor Khan]

No

That's a shame.

 

[Bossman]

India cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. Laughing stock of the whole world!

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

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.”

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.

Read the original article on Task & Purpose. Copyright 2018. Follow Task & Purpose on Twitter.

 

[Dungeness]

Oh, it is Indian Navy after all, anything could happen. I still remember what an US Navy Officer wrote about the competence level of Indian Navy after he stayed on board of INS Delhi for 3 days. It was hilarious!

 

[艹艹艹]

The Russians, Europeans and Americans have been spoonfeeding them for decades, yet they still lag behind China. Sometimes I wonder if they are really capable of anything.

80……you konw！

 

[Han Patriot]

Oh, it is Indian Navy after all, anything could happen. I still remember what an US Navy Officer wrote about the competence level of Indian Navy after he stayed on board of INS Delhi for 3 days. It was hilarious!

With troops not even getting enough provisions, I am not even sure they have the strength to train, let alone remember that training.

 

[ziaulislam]

If a submarine doesnt have ballistic missile launch capability could it still launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles? Why ballistic subs are considered better than non BM ones.
Why every SSB submarine always have N (nuclear) in its name too. Do submarines that could launch a conventional warhead carrying ballistic missile and those subs that could launch a nuke tipped ballistic missile need some different tech ?
Can u refer me to some reading material.

Because they are difficult to intercept . are faster and have better range . blastic missle Will reach 15000 miles in 45 min vs cruise missle will take 15 hours and will have to be massive

 

[Han Patriot]

Time to denuclearize Pak is coming.

Time to denuclearize India is coming.

 

[Ocean]

Because they are difficult to intercept . are faster and have better range . blastic missle Will reach 15000 miles in 45 min vs cruise missle will take 15 hours and will have to be massive

Yes basically this was also one of my questions that why nuke tipped ballistic missiles are carried by nuclear powered missiles. Also does a submarine need a diiferent specific tech to be able to fire ballistic missiles?