I already posted about it see this.
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I already posted about it see this.
Sorry but these are mere weapons & hull config. I was asking about the reactor. And the details here made me very confused.
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Okay I will tell about the first nuclear submarine which is in service.
The Arihant was launched on July 26, 2009, it's taken four years for its nuclear reactor to achieve criticality. Its design is based on the Russian Akula-1 class submarines, of which the best-known example is the INS Chakra, a nuclear submarine leased for ten years by India from Russia in 2011 and formally commissioned into the Indian navy in 2012. In January 1988, when India first leased a Charlie class nuclear submarine from the Soviet Union for three years, it called it by the same name, INS Chakra. The 100-member Indian crew for the ‘Arihant’, besides training at the School for Advanced Underwater Warfare at Vishakapatnam, is also training on the new INS Chakra.
The Arihant's 83Mw pressurised water reactor (PWR) has also been built with considerable assistance from the Russians, who are said to have helped scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in miniaturising the reactor to fit into the 10m diameter hull of the nuclear submarine.
If you are asking abou the S 5 Class Submarine Reactor then the information is scare.
So the designs & assistance have been provided by russians. Even with that i can't see how india can come up with indigenous reactor design for sub within barely a decade.
You better hope they know what they are doing.
Skywatcher
Captain
The IN could probably just base a sub reactor off of one of those research reactors in India (there's at least several, last I checked).
PiSigma
"the engineer"
This is beyond stupid... I want to see 5 planes flying in formation and trying to turn. Good luck trying to not tangle the decoys or crash into each other.
Research reactors? In a nuclear weapon armed sub?
Do they have floating research reactors?
Soviet&American submarine reactors appeared faster back in 1950s. 1980s China wasn't exactly a high tech hub either.
These nations were...highly motivated to move fast, that's for sure, but we aren't in 1950s anymore.
Skywatcher
Captain
You'll have a lot of work to do to adapt it for naval conditions. But if the future Indian SSN is really going to have IEPS, then that should reduce the design adaption work in some areas.Research reactors? In a nuclear weapon armed sub?
Do they have floating research reactors?