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Индия планирует арендовать АПЛ
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Помнится уже в архиве где-то обсуждали про подобное
Jane's Defence Weekly
December 20, 2000
India Planning To Lease Russian SSN
By Rahul Bedi, JDW Correspondent, New Delhi
India is examining the possibility of leasing a Russian nuclear-powered
submarine (SSN) to help bolster the development of
its Advanced Technology Vessel intended to form a key component of its
nuclear deterrent (Jane's Defence Weekly 22
November).
Official sources said the Indian Navy (IN) also wanted a Russian SSN to
"keep alive" the training it acquired on INS
Chakra, the Soviet Charlie I class submarine it leased in 1988 for three
years. IN officers were unwilling to comment on the
proposed lease, saying the matter was with the government, but suggested
that such a deal would be "beneficial".
"All navies have aspirations [to operate nuclear submarines] and so do we,"
Chief of Naval Staff Adm Sushil Kumar told
reporters in New Delhi before Navy Day celebrations on 5 December.
Defence officials are cautious about the success of leasing a SSN which they
said would be strongly opposed by a US
government anxious to avoid an arms race in the region. They noted that
Russian President Vladimir Putin had defied the
global nuclear blockade against India by agreeing to provide it low-enriched
uranium for the US-built Tarapur atomic power
station near Bombay and may agree to lease India a SSN.
The contract for 58 tonnes of Russian fuel for Tarapur's twin-reactor was
part of a little publicised agreement on bilateral
co-operation on peaceful applications of nuclear energy. Russia is also
building two 1,000MW nuclear power reactors in
southern Tamil Nadu state for $2.6 billion and is seeking to build more
plants. The plants' enriched uranium would be
supplied by Moscow while India would reprocess the spent fuel and keep it
under safeguards.
Over the past 30 years, India has built 10 power stations, four research
reactors, six heavy water plants and a host of nuclear
related facilities. Indian officials said Russia could sell more reactors to
India provided it quits the Nuclear Supplier Group
(NSG) of which it is a founder member. It can also so do if India is
recognised as a nuclear weapon state or NSG guidelines
are relaxed.