A.Mookerjee
Banned Member
There was an excellent writing on I N S Arihant on Outlook magazine. The ex naval officer who wrote for the nuclear submarine was very expressive in his expressions. The Indian Navy finds itself in the exotic position of having a ballistic missile nuclear submarine first, and then a submarine will follow later, which will have torpedoes as the weapon of primary use. I was disappointed, as it would be easier perhaps to build a nuclear submarine with a conventional naval role first, rather than a ballistic missile submarine. Or perhaps not. Perhaps it is easier for us Indian's to integrate a ballistic missile system on a nuclear submarine, than it is for us to develop the torpedoes in an anti ship role, but I have read that the I N S Arihant has anti ship torpedoes too. This is understandable, as the main threat to the Arihant will come from the enemy naval vessels. If I may be very brutal in my expression, then I may say that nuclear weapons proliferation has made the world a safer place. The second world war took place as an event because the atomic bomb had not been invented at the start of the world war. Now in the globe, military powers are more circumspect to enter into military operations, even though there are not many atomic powers in the world.