Congratulations of a sort are due India, which just launched its first a href="http://warisboring.com/?p=2424"nuclear ballistic missile submarine/a. The boat was built with Russian assistance, which makes sense because it kind of looks like a Russian sub. Arihant is the first of three expected boats, which is a bit light for a sea-based nuclear deterrent; India must be expecting to build a second class with the experience gained from these subs. The a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arihant_class_submarine"wikipedia/a page suggests that the Arihants will carry two different kinds of SLBM, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. One of the SLBM types appears to have been successfully tested, which puts the Arihant ahead of thea href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulava_%28missile%29" latest Russian/a SSBN...div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-7323942285640217352?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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