RBT's Defense Blog

  Recently, India won a deal to build 4 non-nuclear icebreaker ships estimated to be worth over Rs 6,000 crores for Russia. Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company ROSATOM will seek “favorable and capable yards” in India to construct the ships to support its Northern Sea Route (NSR) development plan in the face of sanctions imposed by the USA and other countries. This brings to notice the nuclear icebreakers operated by Russia, the only nation to do so in the world. So why are we talking about nuclear icebreakers? It is because of the nuclear reactors in them that have been used in the Arihant class SSBNs of the Indian Navy. Many may not be aware that Russia provided the nuclear reactors of its nuclear icebreakers to be developed into reactors for S1/half-boat, S2/Arihant, S3/Arighaat, S4/Aridhaman, and the supposed S4*. Kindly note USA, the Soviet Union/Russia, China, France, and Britain hold nuclear reactor technology very d

The CROWN Project has successfully reached its objective to design, develop, and test a compact, lightweight multi-function radiofrequency system prototype, by integrating radar, electronic warfare, and communication in one single system, without any end-user restrictions. Additionally, the CROWN project created a technological demonstrator or TD to showcase the feasibility of the system and its potential to introduce a new enabling capability. The CROWN project also determined necessary investments and outlined research activities for further developing a Technology Readiness Level 7 (TRL7) prototype demonstration in an operational environment. The project included, in particular, two connected activities focusing on the R&D assessment of critical technologies for the development of future European multi-function radio frequency systems and R&T activities on the system and component level. Follow-on activities aiming at producing an EU prototype by the end of 2027 are recommen