Indian Navy: Difference between revisions

{{INS|Arihant}} was launched on 26 July 2009 in [[Visakhapatnam]], and was secretly commissioned into active service in August 2016.<ref name="Now, India has a nuclear triad">{{cite news|title=Now, India has a nuclear triad|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Now-India-has-a-nuclear-triad/article16074127.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=18 July 2017|date=18 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221185205/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Now-India-has-a-nuclear-triad/article16074127.ece|archive-date=21 December 2016|last1=Peri|first1=Dinakar}}</ref> The Navy plans to have six nuclear-powered [[ballistic missile submarine]]s in service in the near future.<ref name="Navy creating a new base for nuke submarines">{{cite web|author1=Suman Sharma|title=Navy creating a new base for nuke submarines|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-navy-creating-a-new-base-for-nuke-submarines-1395220|website=DNA India|access-date=18 July 2017|date=12 June 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107070526/http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-navy-creating-a-new-base-for-nuke-submarines-1395220|archive-date=7 January 2016}}</ref> ''Arihant'' is both the first boat of the {{sclass|Arihant|submarine|0}} nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines and the first nuclear-powered submarine to be built in India.<ref name="India set to launch nuclear-powered submarine">{{cite web|author1=Rajat Pandit|title=India set to launch nuclear-powered submarine|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-set-to-launch-nuclear-powered-submarine/articleshow/4787167.cms?referral=PM|website=The Times of India|access-date=18 July 2017|date=17 July 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201071911/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-set-to-launch-nuclear-powered-submarine/articleshow/4787167.cms?referral=PM|archive-date=1 February 2015}}</ref>

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