Staff photographer with The Hindu newspaper scoops this great shot of Arihant, India’s indigenously developed nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine as it pushes out to sea today for long-awaited sea trials in the Bay of Bengal. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Visakhapatnam for the cast-off ceremony. Love the fuzzy picture, the first photograph of the Arihant’s entire surfaced silhouette!
Gorgeous! 😀
Looks like an AMerican SSBN !
Looks like an AMerican SSBN !
Initial ATV designs showed POD for towed array sonar. It does not seem to be there in the above snap. Has there been design changes or initial design pictures were not actually of Arihant??
Stunning! .. wow..
NSR says —
Congratulations to India and best wishes in sea trials…
Does any one see the trough in the middle? Why is it there? It is supposed to be smoothly tapering off…
Beautiful!!!
sailing to sink….
Just what I wanted to mention here shiv, and then I read further and you already mentioned it in the article, i.e the first complete picture of this ssbn's surfaced silhouette.
Fantastic PIC and all the best to the crew.
A moment of great Pride for all of us….Now they should work for SSBNs above 18000 tons… which can carry 20 SLBMs of at least 8000 km range !!!! Any SLBM less than that wont be a true Deterrent against China or for a matter of fact any Nuclear state…..
@singam – Historic day for INS and India. A real milestone has been achieved.
Proud day for our submarine arm
finally something out !! hope it goes well & Robin K Dhowan don't repeat…. Ïts dangerous ships in short accidents are expected"…..
slow and steady wins the race
Congratulations – The Boat Builder's of Vishakapatanam & Indian Navy .
Hope the lessons learnt from this platform helps in building the next two boats faster and safer .
great.we are going to need it earlier than we think.