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The contract for the ballistic missile submarines is worth just under 500 million euros, the company said.

INS Arihant is a ballistic missile submarine armed with twelve K-15 missiles, each capable of carrying a 500-kg nuclear warhead to a target 750-km away.

Neither the Xia-class (Type-092) ballistic missile submarine nor the new Jin-class (Type-094) have ever conducted a deterrent patrol," it said.

1959 America launched the first ballistic missile submarine, the George Washington.

This month, a photograph appeared on the Internet of the propeller on an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine at Trident Submarine Base in Bangor.

That thinking must evolve, if the Navy is to ever reach a 313-ship fleet, which is expected to include 11 aircraft carriers, 88 surface combatants, 55 littoral combat ships, 48 attack submarines, four cruise missile submarines, 14 ballistic missile submarines, 31 expeditionary warfare ships, 30 logistics vessels, 12 maritime pre-positioning cargo ships and 20 support vessels.

Clearly, ballistic missile submarines are an established way of doing it but that by no means rules out other options.

1959: America launched the first ballistic missile submarine, the George Washington.