Russia’s Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased to the Indian navy in the next few days, an engineer said on Wednesday.
“The submarine is now fully ready to carry out its tasks,” a senior
executive at the Amur Shipyard, where the submarine was built, told RIA
Novosti. “It will be handed over before the end of the year.”
When Russia makes the delivery, it will make India only the sixth
operator of nuclear submarines in the world. Earlier this month, it
launched the first of its own nuclear submarines.
The ten-year lease is worth $920 milion.
The Nerpa, an Akula II-class attack submarine, had originally been
scheduled for delivery in 2008 but an accident earlier that year forced
the Russian authorities to put it on hold.
Twenty people, mostly civilians, were killed when a fire-suppressant
gas was released on the Nerpa during shakedown trials, in one of
Russia’s worst naval accidents.
* Notícia publicada al RIA Novosti. La compartim per complementar les darreres notícies sobre els acords en matèria naval entre Rússis i l'Índia
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