Rubin Bureau Offers India Amur-1650 Sub Armed with Club or BrahMos Missiles

02.04.2012 Rubin Central Design Bureau is ready to offer Indian Navy non-nuclear submarine Amur-1650 armed with either Club or BrahMos missile systems, said the bureau's deputy director for foreign economic activity Andrei Baranov at the Defexpo India 2012 exhibition, reports ITAR-TASS.

"So far, Indian partners have not raised the question as to integrate BrahMos missile system into Amur-1650 submarine participating in the Indian Navy's tender", he said.

At present, Russian project of the sub is armed with Club cruise missiles launched by horizontal torpedo tubes; this system is well familiar to Indian Navy. However, if India wants the sub to be armed with vertically-launched BrahMos strike missiles, Rubin is ready to alter the project, explained A. Baranov.

"Amur is well compatible with BrahMos missiles. We have worked on the sub's architecture equipped with that missile system, so if Indian customers want the submarine to be armed with BrahMos it would consolidate positions of Rosoboronexport in the tender", he emphasized.

"We can easily mount BrahMos missiles on our subs, since there is a wide experience of underwater test launches. Moreover, BrahMos is a development of Onyx missile system used by Russian warships", Baranov specified.

Prospective non-nuclear submarine Amur-1650 with air-independent powerplant will be offered by Rosoboronexport to India's tender for procurement and license production of six conventional subs.