Comments by "红火树 RedFireTree" (@firetree2007) on "All about INS Arighat: India's second nuclear submarine | WION" video.
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This thing is totally useless. It's so tiny that all it can carry is the K-15, which has a range of only 750 km and might even fall back on its own head. In comparison, China's SLBMs, with the JL-2 having a range of 8,000 km and the JL-3 with 15,000 km, are far superior.
India's much-vaunted K-4, with a range of 3,000 km, is still in the testing phase, launched from a 'submerged underwater platform.' The K-4 is too big to fit into the Arihant or Arighat submarines. For the next four so-called nuclear subs, the situation will be the same since all of them will have the same diameter. Therefore, none of them will have any real capability for 'nuclear deterrence from the ocean.
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Let me tell you the truth about how India wasted all that money on this project. The diameter of this submarine, like the INS Arihant, is 10 meters, which can only fit the tiny K-15 missile. However, the K-4 missile has a length of 12 meters, so it won't fit.
In a normal country, they would stop producing this class of subs and start building larger ones with a bigger diameter. However, since no other country will sell nuclear subs to India, India has to make them itself. The problem is that to do this, you need a huge steel plate bending machine. For a 10-meter diameter, you need a roller that can handle 17 meters, as the total should be 33 meters, with half being about 17 meters. To make a 12-meters diameter, you need a machine that can handle about 19 meters. India doesn't have such a huge steel plate bending machine, so they can't make it.
But instead of stopping, India continued to spend more money on it. A member of the Indian parliament suggested that since the sub can only carry six K-15 missiles, why not add more? So, they decided to add a 10-meter section in the middle of the submarine to make room for more missiles. However, they didn’t consider that the problem isn’t how many K-15s you have, but that you can’t fit larger missiles like the K-4 in it, since the diameter remains the same. Adding more K-15s doesn't change anything. No other nuclear country will let your sub get within 750 km of it.
But India keeps spending (wasting) more money on this, so after this one, four more subs of this class (named S4, S5, etc.) will be built. Well, it's your money; waste as much as you like.
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