Bhilai Steel Plant Develops Next-Gen Steel for India's S5 Submarines

You may know the Bhilai Steel Plant for building the tough stuff our aircraft carriers are made of. Well, now they're taking a deep dive! Bhilai's engineers are cooking up a next-generation steel designed especially for a whole different kind of beast – the S5 class submarines.

These aren't your regular subs. The S5 class will be nuclear-powered, with missiles on board - the real underwater heavyweights. And for a machine like that, you need steel that isn't just strong, it's gotta be next-level tough. Think about it – deep underwater, the pressure is immense. This steel will be like the submarine's armor.

Of course, Bhilai isn't starting from scratch. They've shown their metal (pun intended!) when they made those special steel plates for our aircraft carrier, the Vikrant. Now, they're taking that expertise and finetuning it for this unique underwater challenge.

This new submarine steel isn't ready just yet. It's going through some serious testing – years of it! They're making sure it can handle anything the ocean throws its way. Only the best will do when it comes to building our S5 submarines.

Now, we don't have all the official details (it's classified, after all). But word on the street is, these S5 subs will be completely new, bigger, and way more powerful than anything we have now. We're talking over 12,000 tons underwater!

Why is this new steel such a big deal? Think of it as a huge leap toward being self-reliant when it comes to our defense. We won't need to look elsewhere for the super-strong materials to build our own strategic submarines. These S5s, made with homegrown steel, will show everyone that India's got some serious underwater muscle.

 

[NSR]

If it is good for S5 Ballistic Missile submarine, then it will be equally good for proposed Indian IN WDB designed P-76.
A big requirement is taken care off for submarines after developing steel for warships a while ago.

Way to go SAIL-Bhilai!!!

Of all Indian armed forces services, Indian Navy is the best for innovation, initiative, and long-range planning.
Perhaps, IN should start developing non-magnetic steel for its SSK submarines.

 

[Aftab Ahmed Sheikh]

1. What is the name of the steel like DMR-249 for Vikrant? What's its speciality & features?
2. Then what was used for S-2 & S-3 SSBN?

 

[kumar]

IN as usual spearheading innovation. Hope k5 and k6 developed for s5.

 

[beencensured]

1. What is the name of the steel like DMR-249 for Vikrant? What's its speciality & features?
2. Then what was used for S-2 & S-3 SSBN?

It is a non-magnetic steel developed sometime back when they developed the steel for Vikrant. There lots of mental coolies like NSR who live in their imp0tent fantasy that forget India is the world largest country by population and biggest tech company in world is controlled by Indian origin. Thanks to M0di, India has become well feed.

 

[Sandeep]

This is a very important project and the size and dimensions requires a different and stronger set of steel that will be in service for decades and hold a nuclear reactor which powers the submarine at a fast speed and carry more long range and heavier missiles. This is a priority project as they need to start building it now as our last two Arihant submarines are close to finishing or already being fitted out in a wet dock.

 

[Rational Guy]

S5 class is proceeding well probably bcoz it's directly under PMO and NSA and doesn't have to deal much with MoD babus.