S-2: Options for the Pakistan Navy

Authors

Muhammad Azam Khan

Abstract

Around noon on 26 July 2009, Gurushuran Kaur, the wife of the Indian prime minister, broke a single coconut on the hull of a submarine in the fifteen- meter-deep Matsya dry dock at Visakhapatnam (also known as Vizag). The occasion marked the formal launch of India’s first indigenously built submarine, a six-thousand-ton nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) known as S-2—also as the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) and, more commonly, by its future name, INS Arihant(destroyer of the enemy).2 The launch ended for In- dia a journey stretching over three decades since the inauguration of the ATV program and including an eleven-year construction period.

Recommended Citation

Khan, Muhammad Azam (2010) "S-2: Options for the Pakistan Navy," Naval War College Review: Vol. 63: No. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol63/iss3/7