India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, which can strike targets more than 700 km away, was test-fired from a test range at Chandipur near here today.
“The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher positioned at launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range at about 10.03 hours,” said an official soon after the flight took off from the launch ground.
“Flight details will be available after data retrieved from radars and telemetry points, monitoring the trajectories, are analysed,” the official said.
It is the second test of the sub-sonic long-range cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ from the ITR.
The maiden flight, conducted on March 12, 2013 could not achieve all the desired parameters as “the flight had to be terminated mid-way when deviations were observed from its intended course,'' sources said.
India has in its arsenal the 290-km range supersonic 'BrahMos' cruise missile which is jointly developed by India and Russia. But ‘Nirbhay’ with long range capability is a different kind of missile being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Nirbhay has good loitering capability, good control and guidance, high degree of accuracy in terms of impact and very good stealth features.
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