{"id":194016,"date":"2008-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/indian-navy-looks-to-nuke-sub-lease-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:00:00","slug":"indian-navy-looks-to-nuke-sub-lease-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/indian-navy-looks-to-nuke-sub-lease-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy Looks to Nuke Sub Lease Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amur shipyard in Russia <a href=\"http:\/\/informationdissemination.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/nuclear-attack-submarine-on-cheap.html\">has started sea trials on the &#8220;kinda sorta new&#8221; Akula II boat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not completely new, construction was halted in 1991, but this is a <strong>very<\/strong> capable boat, and the Indians are getting for $650 million for a 10 year lease.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I think that the cost has to be understated, even if the Russians are desparate to maintain their shipyards capabilities, this is a 10 cent sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amur shipyard in Russia has started sea trials on the &#8220;kinda sorta new&#8221; Akula II boat. It&#8217;s not completely new, construction was halted in 1991, but this is a very capable boat, and the Indians are getting for $650 million for a 10 year lease. FWIW, I think that the cost has to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161,1033,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-russia","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}