Nuclear-powered INS Arihant carries out successful launch of SLBM

Nuclear-powered INS Arihant carries out successful launch of SLBM : India’s nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant has carried out a successful launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in the Bay of Bengal.

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Reason: To validate the operational and technological parameters of the weapon system.

INS Arihant:

It is a 6,000-tonne submarine. It is a lead ship of India’s Arihant class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. It is India’s first indigenous nuclear submarine that has been inducted in the Indian Navy.