NDTV Exclusive: This is INS Arihant, First Made-in-India Nuclear Submarine

[Iggy]

Yep! The shapes seem to differ.

And no Indian flag too.. Are they used to hoist the national flag when surfaced?

 

[Lipizzaner_Stallion]

And no Indian flag too.. Are they used to hoist the national flag when surfaced?

Why they will hoist national flag in water ?

 

[Iggy]

Why they will hoist national flag in water ?

 

[kurup]

From here...File:INS Arihant closeup.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

And another...

Russian Borei Class SSBN .......... not Arihant .

And no Indian flag too.. Are they used to hoist the national flag when surfaced?

These pictures are from Visakhapatnam Harbor during Harbor trials ........ So no need to hoist flags .

 

[thesolar65]

Whatever be the look, who cares, as long as it delivers and its ours!!

 

[indoPunjabi]

It looks like 30 years old.

Diwali pe Naya paint karva denge

 

[Cyberian]

It looks cheap, rusty and very old. Just more junk from DRDO. Typical. Maybe it can be donated to a museum before it becomes another underwater tomb for the Indian sailors like that other one a few years back.

 

[trident2010]

It looks cheap, rusty and very old. Just more junk from DRDO. Typical. Maybe it can be donated to a museum before it becomes another underwater tomb for the Indian sailors like that other one a few years back.

Well said !!
Exactly my thoughts ..

 

[Water Car Engineer]

It looks cheap, rusty and very old. Just more junk from DRDO. Typical. Maybe it can be donated to a museum before it becomes another underwater tomb for the Indian sailors like that other one a few years back.

Um, it looks fine actually. As along as it can spit K4s and K15s it'll be fine.

I wish to see most countries even produce this "junk" let alone the missiles for it.

 

[Indischer]

It looks cheap, rusty and very old. Just more junk from DRDO. Typical. Maybe it can be donated to a museum before it becomes another underwater tomb for the Indian sailors like that other one a few years back.

Never judge a book by it's cover.

 

[waz]

It looks fine. Lord, since when have looks been a prerequisite for a weapon's system? If that's the case, people should drive Ferraris onto the battle field. Just strap a grenade launcher and 50 cal gun on and you should be fine, after all you will look be looking great in it when you die.

The submarine is there to do a job i.e. be India's second strike capability, something India has put a great deal of work in, to their credit. The SLBM is ready, the vessel is nearly there, what more do you want?

If that vessel was produced by Pakistan I would be proud.

 

[Cyberian]

Never judge a book by it's cover.

How comes? Hasn't the Indian Navy earned a reputation for sinking its flag ship and a submarine in recent years all due to extremely poor quality of its war machines?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

The submarine is there to do a job i.e. be India's second strike capability, something India has put a great deal of work in, to their credit. They SLBM is ready, the vessel is nearly there, what more do you want?

That, and it's also a tech demo of much larger and more capable future SSBMs.

 

[waz]

That, and it's also a tech demo of much larger and more capable future SSBMs.

Yep, wise move. Build upon a test bed and get better.

 

[Indischer]

How comes? Hasn't the Indian Navy earned a reputation for sinking its flag ship and a submarine in recent years all due to extremely poor quality of its war machines?

1. You blamed DRDO for creating junks. INS Sindhurakshak was neither built by DRDO nor upgraded by DRDO.

2. The Indian Navy sure has earned a bad name over the explosion of that docked sub and a few other accidents. But they don't build submarines. They merely operate them.

3. None of the ships or submarines operated by the Indian Navy failed any quality checks. Any submarine will sink if torpedoes explode inside it. The sabotage angle too hasn't been ruled out yet.

4. The submarine that sank was not the flagship of the Navy.