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Once Arighat is commissioned, India will have two operational SSBNs that are equipped with the 750-KM range K-15 missile, designed for retaliatory nuclear strikes. India’s kilo class submarine INS Sindhuraj during the Malabar 2020 exercise in the Bay of Bengal Arighat, the second of the indigenous Arihant class nuclear-powered ballistic missile carrying submarine (SSBN), is in the final stages of sea trials and will be commissioned early next year, ThePrint has learnt. Sources in the defence and security establishment said the submarine has performed well during the sea trials so far, and added that the commissioning of the vessel was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “It should be done (commissioned) early next year,” a source said. The Arighat was quietly  launched in November 2017  by the then Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. With Arighat in, India will be operating two SSBNs that are equipped with the 750 KM range K-15 submarine-launched ballistic missile, ...

The development of these naval platform launched missiles began in the late 1990s as a step towards completing India's nuclear triad - the capability of launching nuclear weapons from land, sea and air based assets. A successful trial of the nuclear capable Shaurya missile was conducted by India, the news agency ANI reported Saturday. Shaurya is a land-based parallel of the submarine launched K-15 missile. These ballistic weapons belong to the K missile family — codenamed after late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam — which are launched from Arihant class of nuclear submarines. A look at what this family of missiles is, their strategic importance as a nuclear deterrent and their recent tests. India's K-5 SLBM is currently under development  The K Family of missiles The K family of missiles are primarily Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), which have been indigenously developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and are named after Dr Kalam , the centre figur...