India develops submarine-launched ballistic missile, joins elite club

[Rajaraja Chola]

India has successfully developed its first submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) for the indigenous nuclear submarine 'INS Arihant', joining an elite club of nations possessing such weaponry.

The SLBM, which can be launched from Arihant, has been developed successfully, sources said here.

Senior DRDO Scientist and Director of Hyderabad-based Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) AK Chakrabarti was honoured today by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function here for his "outstanding contributions in the successful development of the first SLBM system for the nuclear powered platform Arihant."

The development of the underwater-launched ballistic missile will help India in completing its nuclear triad under which now it will have the option to strike from air, land and under the sea.

At present, very few countries including the US, Russia, France, China and the UK have the capability to carry out submarine-based ballistic missile strikes.

Specifications with regard to the Indian missile were not immediately known but its strike range is believed to be around 700km.

India develops submarine-launched ballistic missile, joins elite club - India - DNA

 

[farhan_9909]

THis was quick

rajnikant speed

 

[sr33jan]

bro... I think it is quite a old news (about saagrika)...

 

[dearone4u_22]

In an interview with NDTV .. Dr.Saraswat said & i quote "it is an Medium range missile "....so its range is surely more than 700 km ...otherwise he would have said its a short range ballistic missile ....

US define medium range as 1000- 3000km
whereas if Saraswat meant IRBM 3500-5000 km aka

The K-4 missile, with a range of 3500 km, is expected to be test fired for the second time in January 2011. An as-yet unnamed variant of K-4 with 5000 km range is under development

 

[dearone4u_22]

double post .......deleted

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

bro... I think it is quite a old news (about saagrika)...

Guess Sagarika was test fired.. But it was not a exactly SLBM.... Now they have developed into SLBM and it waits for an arihant platform to test fire...

 

[veekysingh]

whatever it is. it's still a good news.

 

[tvsram1992]

Guess Sagarika was test fired.. But it was not a exactly SLBM.... Now they have developed into SLBM and it waits for an arihant platform to test fire...

Its not possible in coming years as Arihant itself is undergoing tests . They will make sure before Arihanth , it is launched from similar underwater launcher , may be another submarine . Its a good news , we will have a nuclear triad in 2 decades