India has also developed and tested the K-4 missiles from the same family, which have a range of 3,500 km.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.Initially, the design is to be made indigenously Directorate of Naval Design. The government had already cleared the construction of these submarines in February 2015. Each would be displacing around 6000 tons. The family of indigenously developed Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), sometimes referred to as K-family missiles are codenamed after Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Under Project 75 Alpha, India is planning to build 6 nuclear-powered attack submarines SSNs.'INS Vagsheer, the sixth Scorpene Submarine of Project-75, launched in Mumbai. They were developed under the 900 billion (US11 billion) Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project to design and build nuclear-powered submarines. 'India Quietly Launches Third Arihant-Class Nuclear-Powered Submarine: Report'. In this regard, Dr Homi Bhabha was the architect. The K-4 may also be capable of targeting Beijing, but would need to be in the northern most waters of Bay of Bengal. The submarines K-15 missiles can reach most of Pakistan and its K-4 can target all of Pakistan. This was made possible through several decades of extensive scientific research and technology development primarily in BARC. The Indian Navy will train on INS Chakra, an Akula-class submarine leased from Russia in 2012. India’s first indigenous nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the INS Arihant, was commissioned in August 2016, but spent most of 2017 and the first half of 2018 undergoing repairs after its propulsion system was crippled by water damage (Peri and Joseph 2018). Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs): 'Slayer of Enemies' in Sanskrit) is a class of Indian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines being built for the Indian Navy. India is the only developing nation to have indigenously developed, demonstrated and deployed nuclear reactors for electricity generation. 2 The Government of India approved the construction of six of such submarines in February 2015.
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