D Purandareswari, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta and high ranking officials from the Navy, Department of Atomic Energy, and Defence Research and Development Organisation.įREE SEMINARS AND TECHNICAL PPT PRESENTATIONS YS Rajasekhar Reddy, Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri MM Pallam Raju, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt. Gursharan Kaur, Raksha Mantri Shri.AK Antony, Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. The launch ceremony was attended by the prime Minister.
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It was expected to be ready for induction into the Navy by 2011 after a series of exhaustive trials.
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The INS Arihant, India’s first nuclear submarine that was till now known by the code name S 2, was launched at a simple ceremony in the port town of Visakhapatnam with the traditional breaking of a coconut on its hull by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife, Gursharan Kaur.
But after three decades it had not presented results that could modify the current picture of the navies with nuclear propulsion.
Its program ATV, or Advanced Technology Vessel, was initiated in 1974. India is a nation that struggled to enter the select group of countries that build nuclear powered submarines. Besides the US, which has 74 nuclear submarines, Russia (45), UK (13), France (10) and China (10) also possess nuclear-powered submarines – the US has nearly as many nuclear submarines as all other countries combined. India became the sixth country in the world to have built one. The name Arihant has its origins in the Jain religion, and unofficial news reports stating “Destroyer of Enemies” omitting the definite article. The 367-foot long INS Arihant, which means “Destroyer of the Enemies” in Hindi according to the official news release. India launched its first nuclear-powered submarine in a ceremony in southern port city of Vishakhapatnam 0n 26 July 2009, becoming one of just six nations in the world to have successfully built one.
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