India checks nuclear-capable ballistic missile from submarine Arighaat: Report

India has examined a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from the newly-inducted submarine Arighaat, based on a report.

The nuclear-powered INS Arighaat was commissioned into the Indian Navy on August 29. It’s the second Arihant-class submarine to enter service.

The Occasions of India has reported that India on Wednesday (November 27) examined Okay-4 intermediate vary ballistic missile (IRBM) from Arighaat.

There has not been official affirmation of such a check and it’s not recognized if the check was profitable.

The Okay-4 is a nuclear-capable submarine-launched IRBM with a variety of round 3,500 kilometres.

The ToI reported that the missile was examined within the Bay of Bengal.

Sources advised the newspaper that it was the primary time that the missile was examined from a submarine. Thus far, the newspaper reported, the missile had solely been examined from undersea pontoons.

Whereas Arighaat carries Okay-4 missiles, its predecessor Arihant carries 750-km vary Okay-15 missiles. Two extra nuclear-powered submarines of the Arihant-class are at present being constructed and two extra forms of Okay-series missiles with extra vary are additionally in growth.

The profitable testing of IRBM from a submarine would strengthen India’s nuclear triad, referring to the flexibility to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and seas as nicely. Nuclear-powered submarines carrying nuclear weapons are thought-about to be most potent for nuclear assaults and retaliation. They’re additionally the toughest to detect and destroy whereas land-based launch and storage websites are weak to aerial assaults.