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India To Test New Cruise Missile in 2007

July 24, 2007 :: India Defence :: News

Newspost India reports that India's Advanced Systems Laboratory, a unit of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), is developing a new medium-range, multi-platform missile, named the Nirbhay.  "It [Nirbhay] will be better than [the] Babur," explained Avinash Chander, director of ASL, referring to Pakistan's first subsonic, low-level terrain-mapping cruise missile.   The Pakistani Babur was originally developed with a 500 km range and was later upgraded to 700 km. The Nirbhay missile will have a range of 1,000 kilometers and a speed of 0.7 mach, or 70% of the speed of sound.  While the missile is being developed domestically, India is looking at foreign partnerships to develop the engine. (Article)

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