India will join the elite league of nuclear submarine owning countriesINS Chakra (an 8000 Ton Sea Monster) India’s first nuclear powered submarine INS Chakra to be commissioned today. Now India will join the elite league of nuclear submarine owning countries, the others being the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France and China.

 On April 4, India will become only the world's sixth country to operate a nuclear-powered submarine. The induction of INS Chakra, a Russian-built Akula II attack submarine (SSN) will substantially alter the navy's ability to project power into the Indian Ocean. It is the single biggest force-multiplier India has acquired to counter the entry of the Chinese navy into the Indian Ocean.

 INS Chakra (an 8000 Ton Sea Monster) India’s first nuclear powered submarine INS Chakra to be commissioned today. Now India will join the elite league of nuclear submarine owning countries, the others being the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France and China.

 The submarine, with a crew of 100 personnel, is near the end of its five-week sea journey covering more than 5,000 km from Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, to Visakhapatnam where the vessel will be based. The passage was cloaked in secrecy and the vessel cruised beneath the waves passing Japan, China, the Philippines and the Indonesian archipelago. It was the first demonstration of its practically unlimited endurance.