{"id":9687,"date":"2022-10-15T05:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:20:13","slug":"ins-arihant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-arihant\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Arihant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Arihant:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The capability of being able to launch nuclear weapons from submarines has great strategic importance in the context of achieving a nuclear triad, especially in the light of the \u2018no first use\u2019 policy of India.<\/li>\n<li>INS Arihant is India\u2019s nuclear-powered ballistic missile capable submarine, classified under the SSBN programme.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>INS Arihant is presently armed with K-15 SLBM with a range of 750 km.<\/li>\n<li>The next in the class, INS Arighat is reported to have been launched in 2017 and is said to have been undergoing sea trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>SSBN:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The SSBN is a hull classification symbol for nuclear-powered ballistic missile carrying submarines.<\/li>\n<li>Operations of the SLBMs from the SSBN are under the purview of Strategic Forces Command which is part of India\u2019s Nuclear Command Authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The family of indigenously developed Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), sometimes referred to as K-family missiles are codenamed after Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.<\/li>\n<li>Under the SLBM family, missiles of various ranges have been developed including K-15 also called Sagarika, which has a range of at least 750 km.<\/li>\n<li>India has also developed and tested the K-4 missiles from the same family, which have a range of 3,500 km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1867778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Arihant is India\u2019s nuclear-powered ballistic missile capable submarine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}