NEW DELHI – India has conducted a successful launch of a ballistic missilefrom its indigenous nuclear capable submarine INS Arihant on Friday, itsdefence ministry announced.
It said that the missile successfully impacted the target area in the Bayof Bengal with high accuracy, adding that the test has proved “crewcompetency”.
“The successful user training launch of the SLBM (submarine launchedballistic missile) by INS Arihant is significant to prove crew competencyand validate the SSBN programme, a key element of India’s nucleardeterrence capability,” NDTV quoted the defence ministry as saying.
“A robust, survivable and assured retaliatory capability is in keeping withIndia’s policy to have ‘credible minimum deterrence’ that underpins its ‘NoFirst Use’ commitment,” the ministry added.
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Furthermore, Indian has become sixth country in the world after China,France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States to have nuclearsubmarines armed with ballistic missiles, the Times of India reported.
