FLASH! India's Nirbhay Cruise Missile Tested

[IND151]

India's Defence Research & Development Organisation has just tested the Nirbhay cruise missile for the first time off India's east coast. The 1,000-km range subsonic missile is a two-stage weapon system that has been under development for seven years.

The Nirbhay is understood to be powered by the HAL PTAE-7 turbojet engine, the same that powers the Lakshya-I/II drone.

The Nirbhay will be deployable from land, sea or air.

Livefist: FLASH! India's Nirbhay Cruise Missile Tested

 

[farhan_9909]

Congrats
thats one hell of achievement

 

[IND151]

Balasore (Odisha): Taking an important step forward to make its missile arsenal more potent, India on Tuesday test-fired its first indigenously developed sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ .
Nirbhay (fearless) was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near here in Balasore district.
The missile, under development since 2007, has a range of 1,000 kms - similar to the US Tomahawk, which flies like an aircraft. It has good loitering capability, control and guidance, a high degree of accuracy in terms of impact and very good stealth features
The missile has been developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment, a Defence Research and Development Organisation laboratory based at Bangalore.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...-VYsJn7MCiKtmIp444pcJ3w&bvm=bv.43287494,d.bmk

Congrats
thats one hell of achievement

thank you

and kudos to ADE & DRDO

 

[IND151]

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...6w81HR6pgxyy-6XHbWLLjZQ&bvm=bv.43287494,d.bmk

 

[bloo]

HELL YEAH

 

[Skull and Bones]

Tanik photu bhi koi post kar deo.

 

[45'22']

 

[axisofevil]

So no pictures?

 

[IND151]

India's maiden test-firing of Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile has been terminated after 20 minutes into launch.

All systems onboard the missiles performed perfectly for the first 20 minutes. The radars tracking reported good health.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...QmY9dlqsozbX5FRu2_gf38g&bvm=bv.43287494,d.bmk

 

[neehar]

a mixed success,need more tests. says drdo more news in ndtv

 

[bloo]

India's maiden test-firing of Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile has been terminated after 20 minutes into launch.

All systems onboard the missiles performed perfectly for the first 20 minutes. The radars tracking reported good health.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...QmY9dlqsozbX5FRu2_gf38g&bvm=bv.43287494,d.bmk

YUP THAT IS CONFIRMED

UPDATE @ 12.42PM: The test was NOT a success. The missile began to veer off its path about 17 minutes into launch, and the test missile flight had to be aborted. Groan.

Nirbhay terminated mid-way for the safety of the coast: DRDO

India's maiden test-firing of Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile ended on a sad note with the scientists deciding to terminate it, 20 minutes after it was launched. "All systems onboard the missiles performed perfectly for the first 20 minutes. The radars, tracking the missile, reported good health till then. But after 20 minutes, the missile drifted away from the path," sources said.

It is definitely a blow for ADE, which was handed the project outside the Missile Complex in Hyderabad. "We had to terminate the mission taking into account the safety of the coast," sources said.

An official release from DRDO Media head Dr Ravi Gupta issued at 1:28 pm said: "Long range cruise missile Nirbhay was successfully launched today at 11:50 hrs from launch complex, Chandipur, Odisha, meeting the basic mission objectives successfully. After traveling approximately mid-way, deviations were observed from its intended course. Further, flight was terminated to ensure coastal safety."

Sources told Tarmak007 that the booster, mechanical systems, engine, all avionics and the wing deployment were all intact till the first 20 minutes. Once we noticed that the missile was drifting fast we decided to abort the mission. There could be some malfunction of some component. We will know it soon," sources said.

Ohhhh dear the trolls are gonna have a field day now.....sigh

 

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[IND151]

First Images Of Nirbhay Cruise Missile: NDTV

Livefist: First Images Of Nirbhay Cruise Missile: NDTV

Livefist: More Official Impressions Of Nirbhay

 

[mehboobkz]

Guidance system/components failure most probably.

 

[Speeder 2]

Guidance system/components failure most probably.

yep if the components are located in frontal lobe area, it could be permanent.