India Successfully Test-fire N-capable Cruise Missile
India on November 7,2017 Successfully flight-tested its indigenous" Nirbhay" (the fearless) land-attack cruise missile,which can deliver nuclear warheads to a strike range 1000 km after a string of failure since March 2013.
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The development is significant because the armed force have for long been demanding nuclear
Land-Attack Cruise Missile (LACMs) With range over 1000 km and versatile enough to be fired from land,air and sea.
Often brandished as India's answer to the famed American Tomahawk Missile as also an effective counter to Pakistan Babur LACM, Nirbhay has been in the making for a decade.
The sub-sonic missile is designed to carry a 300 kg nuclear warhead. November 7's test the missile fifth, at 11:20 am from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off Odisha, was dubbed a 'complete sucess' by "DRDO".
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The fight test achieved all mission objective completely from lift-off the final splash.
The missile majestically cruised for 50 min ,achieving the rang of 647 km,"said an offical.
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