India launched INS Arihant nuclear submarine

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• Description : please rate and subscribe: (i just ...(more)put together a bunch of oldclips) A nuclear-powered submarine can remain under water for a long duration while Diesel-fired submarine has to rise to the surface every day to eject carbon-dioxide A nuclear-powered submarine is a much more complex platform than any other vessel and India building one on its own is a great achievement. This is the unanimous assessment of officials, be they from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the Department of Atomic Energy or the Indian Navy. What enhances the scale of the achievement is that INS Arihant, Indias nuclear-powered submarine, will be fitted with Indias own K-15 ballistic missiles that can be launched from under water. The K-15 missiles, which are already under production, can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads. They have a range of 700 km. They are 10.4 metres tall and weigh 6.3 tonnes each. This is a very big capability, a DRDO official said. It means we can launch missiles with nuclear warheads from ground, drop nuclear bombs from air and also fire them now from under water. A nuclear-powered submarine bestowed on India the status of a nation possessing a blue-water navy because the boat can travel far and wide. While the Navy designed INS Arihant, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) built the mini-nuclear reactor that powers the submarine, the DRDO developed the K-15 missiles. The K-15 missiles have been test-fired several times from submerged pontoons off the coast of Visakhapatnam. A missile emerging from the water without losing its fire was a technology in itself In a nuclear-energy system used in a submarine, there is no emission of carbon-dioxide. It is a clean form of energy, a DRDO official explained. The turbine operating on enriched uranium in INS Arihant is a clean system. But a diesel-generator emits carbon-dioxide. You cannot discharge it into the water. So the submarine has to be brought up to the surface every day to eject the carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. (less)