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PAKISTAN OKAYS EXPORT OF AIR-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE
The Global Defence Industries and Solutions (GIDS), a defence conglomerate from Pakistan, has announced that it will unveil the Taimoor Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) for export at the IDEX defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
The Taimoor turbojet-powered ALCM is a highly accurate, long-range, INS/GNAS-guided, all-weather ALCM. It is able to carry multiple types of conventional warheads for land attack precision missions on high-value targets. The terminal guidance is via an imaging infrared (IIR) seeker. The Taimoor ALCM weapon system weighs 2,500 lbs. The weapon is equipped with different warheads designed for lethality against specific targets including pre-fragmented, fragmentation blast, and penetrator warheads. The missile system technical specifications include a 290 kilometre range (MTCR exportable restricted range), an average cruise speed of Mach 0.7, a terminal speed of Mach 0.8. The weapon can fly very low over ground at a programmable height using terrain contour matching (TERCOM) and Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC), thus reducing the detection probability and increasing survivability.
