India successfully tests Nirbhay cruise missile

[Omega007]

This is bloody awesome.




This missile will give us an operational flexibility. Where it can deliver the laod and com back, it will come back . it will be a suicide mission else.

No brother,it will simply complicate the things.A cruise missile,like any other missile is a one way vehicle and should remain so.If it had been feasible to develop a reusable missile,then other technologically more advanced nations would have done that already.If the leaders haven't done it,then I see no reason for India,which is taking its first steps in this field,to try something like that.It simply doesn't make any sense.

As for delivering an warhead is concerned,you can always develop an UCAV for that purpose,in fact India is already building one as we speak!!As for reusable cruise missiles,you can forget about that bro,it's not coming,rest assured.There is no need to sink our limited resources in such futile ventures.

 

[ni8mare]

This missile will give us an operational flexibility. Where it can deliver the laod and com back, it will come back . it will be a suicide mission else.

yeah and we call them as drones.......UCAV

 

[Bhasad Singh Mundi]

Hello forumers, can anyone tell me why does BhraMos have thrust rockets on it's tip (to make its flight path parallel wrt to earth as soon as it's fired) while the Nirbhay doesn't (it uses its main boosters for doing the same)?

1) To remove the engine inlet cover cap when it is a vertical launch of canisterised version.
2) like you said, it is also used to attain lo flight path in a given direction.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

My point was that it did return.

This time the route-map made it return to the vicinity, only for reasons of close monitoring........

 

[Bhasad Singh Mundi]

This time the route-map made it return to the vicinity, only for reasons of close monitoring........

close monitoring was done using a jaguar. DRDO can make this thing recoverable by using Nishant recovery tech and it might prove to be a highly cost effective unmanned radar evading system for short distance bombings.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

close monitoring was done using a jaguar. DRDO can make this thing recoverable by using Nishant recovery tech and it might prove to be a highly cost effective unmanned radar evading system for short distance bombings.

The Jaguar chase plane was only one method of monitoring, there were others too. As for making it recoverable, that idea is quite meaningless, since that will impact both range and payload capabilities majorly. In any case, why on earth do you want it to return; is'nt it supposed to hit the enemy?

 

[Bhasad Singh Mundi]

The Jaguar chase plane was only one method of monitoring, there were others too. As for making it recoverable, that idea is quite meaningless, since that will impact both range and payload capabilities majorly. In any case, why on earth do you want it to return; is'nt it supposed to hit the enemy?

For short range missions (300 KM) , a recoverable Nirbhay could prove to be a very cost effective system.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

For short range missions (300 KM) , a recoverable Nirbhay could prove to be a very cost effective system.

Just do pass that suggestion on to Avinash Chander.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

congrats !!

 

[narcon]

It was 500 to 600 KG in 1st flight.

I don't think so - Probably half that..

 

[HariPrasad]

I don't think so - Probably half that..

OK

For short range missions (300 KM) , a recoverable Nirbhay could prove to be a very cost effective system.

No upto 500 Km or more.

 

[HariPrasad]

Kalam's dream of Reusable missile comes true.

yeah and we call them as drones.......UCAV

Yes, in modern days the difference between UCAV and Nirbhay type of missile has almost vanished.

 

[HariPrasad]

No brother,it will simply complicate the things.A cruise missile,like any other missile is a one way vehicle and should remain so.If it had been feasible to develop a reusable missile,then other technologically more advanced nations would have done that already.If the leaders haven't done it,then I see no reason for India,which is taking its first steps in this field,to try something like that.It simply doesn't make any sense.

As for delivering an warhead is concerned,you can always develop an UCAV for that purpose,in fact India is already building one as we speak!!As for reusable cruise missiles,you can forget about that bro,it's not coming,rest assured.There is no need to sink our limited resources in such futile ventures.

Hi Ommy, this is the dream project of DRDO and Kalam since a long time. We should build the capability . To use it or not depends on circumstances and outcome of test result.

 

[ejaz007]

India Test Fires Nirbhay Cruise Missile

NEW DELHI — India’s homemade subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, capable of carrying a nuclear payload and considered similar to the US Tomahawk cruise missile, was test-fired for the second time Friday from the missile testing center in the eastern state of Odisha.

An official of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the land attack missile, said the test met all required parameters.

Last year, during its maiden test fire, Nirbhay encountered problems with the inertial navigation system, forcing the mission to be aborted.

“Nirbhay will be a terrain-hugging missile capable of avoiding detection by ground-based radar with a range of 1,000 kilometers which will take off like a missile but then takes a cruise flight like an aircraft,” the DRDO official said.

Development of an air version of the Nirbhay has begun but the official provided no details. India wants to use Nirbhay from the air, land and even from submarines.

Nirbhay, which DRDO claims can cruise at the tree-top level, will complement the Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missile, which has a range of 290 kilometers. No date has been fixed yet for induction of the missile.

In 2012, Pakistan test-fired the Babur cruise missile with a range of 700 kilometers. Defense analysts here say the development was aimed at India. Pakistan had claimed that Babur missile is homemade and is a low-flying, terrain-hugging missile with stealth features. ■

Email: vraghuvanshi@defensenews.com.

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[Zarvan]

India Test Fires Nirbhay Cruise Missile

NEW DELHI — India’s homemade subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, capable of carrying a nuclear payload and considered similar to the US Tomahawk cruise missile, was test-fired for the second time Friday from the missile testing center in the eastern state of Odisha.

An official of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the land attack missile, said the test met all required parameters.

Last year, during its maiden test fire, Nirbhay encountered problems with the inertial navigation system, forcing the mission to be aborted.

“Nirbhay will be a terrain-hugging missile capable of avoiding detection by ground-based radar with a range of 1,000 kilometers which will take off like a missile but then takes a cruise flight like an aircraft,” the DRDO official said.

Development of an air version of the Nirbhay has begun but the official provided no details. India wants to use Nirbhay from the air, land and even from submarines.

Nirbhay, which DRDO claims can cruise at the tree-top level, will complement the Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missile, which has a range of 290 kilometers. No date has been fixed yet for induction of the missile.

In 2012, Pakistan test-fired the Babur cruise missile with a range of 700 kilometers. Defense analysts here say the development was aimed at India. Pakistan had claimed that Babur missile is homemade and is a low-flying, terrain-hugging missile with stealth features. ■

Email: vraghuvanshi@defensenews.com.

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Babur has been deployed now looking forward for longer range version