TNPSC Thervupettagam

Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM)

August 21 , 2018 2291 days 1714 0
  • India has operationalized its 1st indigenous Nuclear capable, Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) after 2 decades of development.
  • It was secretly test fired back-to-back from an indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant, off Visakhapatnam coast.
  • It was code-named, B-05 and was inducted in the Navy. It is 10m in length and has a strike range of about 750 km weighing 10 tonnes.
  • The successful mission has made India a member of the very exclusive club of six nations which is capable of firing nuclear-tipped missiles from land, air and undersea.
  • Others being Russia, USA, France, UK, and China.

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