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But frankly speaking, the intention ultimately is to have an indigenous fighter.Earlier the LCA Mark 2 was supposed to be a naval version. Yes, I know India operates a lot of MiGs of various types, so another MiG would have standardized a lot of things. It is not about the aircraft, it is about logistics support. Do you think India made a mistake in not going for the MiG-35, given that the Indian Navy operates MiG-29s from its other aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya?Anil Jai Singh: There are various factors that must have led the Navy to these two aircraft. I suppose even in the future whatever support we might need would come from them.Russia has supported India's nuclear submarine program all through these years and it will continue to do so.Prioritising Indigenous ProductionSputnik: Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar recently said that Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet and Dassault's Rafale M fighters meet the Navy's requirements and it was ready to acquire any of them for its indigenous warship INS Vikrant.

So they have supported our nuclear submarine program right through. It is not only about a submarine and its reactor, but it's also about the shore support, the maintenance, your own civilian nuclear capability, and how much it can support the military nuclear capability.Taking all these factors into consideration, I think the very fact Russia leashed us to nuclear-powered submarines was a great, great asset as far as we were concerned in developing our own nuclear submarine technology.We also built an SSBN, a nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-carrying submarine, called Arihant and we are building more of the same type.Now the reactor that is on the Arihant, we developed with Russian assistance because the basic technology was Russian in nature. Then in 2012, we got the second Chakra, it was the Akula-2 class submarine, another very potent SSN that was frontline capable in the Russian Navy also.These two submarines provided us a tremendous insight into how complex it is to operate nuclear submarines and what sort of infrastructure is required to operate them.

India nuclear submarine how to#

We learned a lot of valuable things about how to operate nuclear submarines when we got that. What are the prospects of India and Russia pursuing joint production of nuclear submarines?Anil Jai Singh: I am not sure if there would be anything called 'joint production' because it is not generally done in nuclear-submarine technology.In 1988, we got Chakra, a Russian nuclear submarine that went back in 1991. Russia has supported India's nuclear submarine program since its inception in the 1960s and it will continue to do so, according to an Indian Navy veteran.Commodore Anil Jai Singh, who spent three decades (1981-2011) in India's blue-water force, with 28 years as a specialist submariner, stated that Moscow helped New Delhi gain invaluable experience in operating nuclear submarines.Accoring to the Navy veteran, India's long-standing and close defense partnership with Russia would keep New Delhi in good stead as far as it's nuclear submarine program is concerned, given that Moscow would be more than willing to assist in the development and production of its own domestic nuclear-powered attack submarines.Apart from Moscow's role in helping India's nuclear submarine project, the former naval commander also spoke of why the force is looking to develop its own naval fighter jet and why aircraft carriers will form the centerpiece of the Indian Navy.Nuances of Submarine DevelopmentSputnik: For years, India has been leasing Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs).