So, this has nothing to do with aviation, but I found it interesting nonetheless.
This article was originally printed in French and was auto-translated to English.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Reuters) - Russia has delivered to the Indian Navy a submarine with nuclear propulsion, the NERP, leased for ten years to force New Delhi, reported Friday, Russian news agencies.
In November 2008, an accident had twenty deaths on board the NERP, which was conducting tests in the Pacific Ocean.
The submarine, with an Indian crew, left the base this week on the Russian Pacific coast to India, says agency Interfax quoted a source within the Russian military-industrial complex.
The RIA news agency, she said, citing a source in the Pacific Fleet, wrote that the crew consists of Russian and Indian seamen and that the submarine conducts tests and has still not been officially handed over to India .
Neither the Russian Ministry of Defence nor the staff of the navy could not be contacted immediately. The press service of the Pacific Fleet gave no details.
The NERP, the last built submarines of the class "Akula", according to the name of NATO, entered service in late 2009.
In initial trials Wed, November 8, 2008, three soldiers and 17 civilians were killed and 21 others injured in an accident related to the inadvertent fire suppression system based on freon, a highly toxic gas.
The submarine has eight torpedo launchers of 533 mm and 650 mm. Its draft is 8140-12770 tons, maximum speed of 30 knots, maximum depth of immersion of 600 meters. Its range is 100 days and its crew of 73 people. (Dmitry Solovyov, Guy Kerivel for the French service)
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