Nirbhay India’s Long range Sub-sonic cruise missile test

The India's first indigenously developed and designed long range cruise missile Nirbhay was successfully tested at 1005 hrs from the ITR (Integrated Test Range). The said entire mission was from lift-off till final splash down was perfect flight achieving the mission objectives.

Nirbhay that is powered by solid rocket motor booster that is developed by Advanced Systems Laboratory took off majestically from a designed mobile launcher designed for Nirbhay. As it achieved the designated altitude and velocity  the booster motor separated, and the turbofan of the engine automatically switched on taking over the further propulsion and wings opened up by commands generated by onboard computer stabilizing the flight. That is guided by highly advanced inertial navigation system indigenously developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI) the Nirbhay continued it's flight that lasted a little over 1hr and 10 minutes.

"The missile maintained an accuracy better than 10 meters throughout it's path and covered a distance of more than 1000 km," said by Dr Chander speaking after the completion of the mission. "The successful indigenous development of Nirbhay cruise missile will fill a vital gap in the war fighting capabilities of our armed forces."

The 1,000 km range cruise missile with capability to strike into enemy territory has been designed and developed by ADE based in Karnataka. The said missile is yet another giant step forward in India's technological capabilities for the design development and leading to production state of the art weapons platforms and equipment for country's armed forces.