To counter the growing naval power of China and Pakistan, India has adopted a unique strategy of leasing advanced Russian nuclear and purchasing diesel-electric submarines. -This approach, which began ...

-The Akula-class submarines remain a critical component of the Russian Navy, with the Vepr expected to stay in service for decades. Akula-Class: Russia’s Formidable Submarines and Their Role in ...

The K-152 Nerpa, rechristened INS Chakra, was inducted in March 2012. The Indian Navy’s first indigenously developed ballistic missile nuclear submarine ...

The INS Chakra was returned to the Soviet Union in 1990 and decommissioned one year later. The K-43 contract disintegrated, in no small part, ...

The INS Chakra, known in the Russian navy as the K-152 Nerpa, was initially conceived in the early 1990s under Russia’s Project 971 M Shchuka-B class nuclear-powered submarine program.

Last week, Kommersant ran a report that the Indian Navy had allowed the visiting U.S. naval delegation to tour INS Chakra, the Akula-II-class Russian attack submarine on lease with the Indian Navy.

INS Chakra is armed with not only four standard diameter 533 torpedo tubes but also another four 650mm torpedo tubes. Armament includes the VA-111 Shkval supercavitating torpedo, ...

INS Chakra is the first nuclear-powered submarine to be operated by the navy in almost two decades. NEW DELHI — The Indian navy on April 4 formally commissioned a Russian-built Akula-II-class ...

Russia is developing unmanned underwater vehicles for deployment by fifth-generation submarines. New fifth generation nuclear submarines are expected to have advanced stealth, noise-reduction, ...

(FILES) This file picture taken on September 21, 2004, in Brest harbor, western France, shows the Vepr Russian ...