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- DRDO has successfully tested Nirbhay Cruise Missile recently from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha.
- Nirbhay is an all-weather low-cost long-range cruise missile with stealth and high accuracy and capable to engage several targets in a single flight.
- Nirbhay cruise missile is the India’s first long range sub-sonic cruise missile.
- It was the fifth launch of the missile in the last five years along with GPS system.
- It has blended missile and aeronautical technologies which allows it to take off vertically like missile and cruise horizontally like an aircraft.
- The missile has a range of more than 1000 km.
- It is capable of carrying warheads of up to 300kg at a speed of 0.6 to 0.7 Mach (sub-sonic).
- It is guided by a highly advanced indigenously developed inertial navigation system.
- The Nirbhay cruise missile is an Indian version of the American Tomahawk.
- The missile is capable of being launched from multiple platforms on land, sea and air.
- Sub-sonic – Any speed lower than the speed of sound. Mach number greater than 1 is called as super-sonic.
- Cruise Missile – It is a guided missile that flies major portion of its flight within atmosphere at approximately constant speed.
- Ballistic Missile – It is a missile that follows a ballistic trajectory and guided only relatively during brief periods and spends most of their flight out of the atmosphere.
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