INDIA'S UNDERWATER PREDATORS
Geopolitics|December 2021
While the Indian Navy requires a sizable submarine fleet for countering a two-front war with Pakistan and China, the union government needs to lay more stress on building more nuclear-powered ballistic missile boats and nuclear-propelled attack vessels while quickly finalising the P-75I programme’s roadmap, argues
- AMARTYA SINHA
INDIA'S UNDERWATER PREDATORS

Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, submarines have always played a pivotal role in both strategic and tactical level battlefields. From launching cruise missile strikes on enemy’s high value assets, facilitating amphibious landing of special forces commandos in hostile territories, attacking and sinking enemy warships, and even launching devastating nuclear weapon strikes on enemy cities when required, underwater military capabilities of a nation can tip the balance in the aggressor’s favour during the beginning moments of the war. Thus, an undersea striking capability plays a very important role in shaping a nation’s strategic doctrine. Submarines are popularly known as ‘Sharks of Steel’ due to their predatory nature in stealthily detecting targets and destroying them.

A legacy to reckon with

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