Jay Menon

India Correspondent

Delhi, India

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Jay Menon
NEW DELHI — A Russian-made Kilo class submarine operated by the Indian navy caught fire after a massive explosion and sank in the dockyard in Mumbai, marking one of the worst-ever disasters for the country’s submarine program. The explosion and fire took place aboard the INS Sindhurakshak with about 18 people on board shortly after midnight Aug. 14, a defense ministry spokesman says.
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NEW DELHI — India has activated the atomic reactor on board its first indigenous nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, the INS Arihant, enabling it to undergo sea trials. A defense ministry official says the 83 megawatt pressurized water reactor on Arihant has been started. “Now the submarine will undergo extensive sea trials before being made operational,” the official says. INS Arihant has been undergoing trials at the Indian navy’s submarine base in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.
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Jay Menon
NEW DELHI — India’s 45,000-ton Vikrant aircraft carrier was floated out of its building bay at the state-owned Cochin shipyard in the southern state of Kerala Aug. 12, marking the end of the initial phase of construction on India’s first homegrown carrier.
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