India successfully tests Nirbhay cruise missile

[Omega007]

So polite. I am surprised

Banna padta hai boss,to end the useless fight and keeping this nice thread from getting ruined.

 

[Sugarcane]

KM is typo, they meant meters.

Typo? It's video report.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

@levina
In case you missed the news sis

 

[Mujraparty]

We have met the target we had set for ourselves," said Dr Avinash Chander, head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). "The entire mission performed in copy book style," he said.

The surface-to-surface missile is fitted with a turbojet engine and is capable of flying at low altitudes to avoid detection. It can even hover near the target, striking from any direction without being seen on radar.

The missile is intended to cruise like an aircraft, helped by its small fins which allow great maneuvering; it can be launched from land, sea and air.

India Successfully Test-Fires Nuclear Capable Cruise Missile Nirbhay

 

[trainer]

yesterday ISRO satellite launch, today DRDO cruise missile and next big thing is again GSLV markIII(ISRO) within next 45 days... and the saga go on

 

[TeesraIndiotHunter]

Best of luck for doing what Pakistan did more than a decade ago!



Backward, inferior indians.

 

[RKO]

@levina
In case you missed the news sis

sis??

 

[Munir]

No.

I have heard even longer range for Nirbhay. LRCM was supposed to be 600 KM + missile but when Brahmos was tested for 500 KM +, it started became clear that LRCM will be an even longer range missile. It is likely to be 1000 KM range missile with Mach 3.2 speed if some Bloggers is to be believed.

BALASORE (Odisha): India's indigenously developed nuclear capable sub-sonic cruise missile 'Nirbhay', which can strike targets more than 700 kms away, was today test-fired from a test range at Chandipur near here.

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"The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher positioned at launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range at about 10.03 hours," said an official soon after the flight took off from the launch ground.

 

[bloo]

 

[Contrarian]

In the video posted here, reporting is claiming that missile will fly at 10-12 km alt. Is it normal for cruise missile? If yes than why we call them terrain hugging? 10-12 km hell of distance for hugging.

This was primarily for navigation. There will be more tests. The missile is only expected to be cleared for production after 3 years ie in 2017.

Though there are typos and wrong reports galore about Defense in the media.
Most private reports always quote PTI(official). PTI reported the range of the missile as 700 - 100kms. That was a typo by PTI, it was supposed to be 700-1000kms. But all the private news outlets copied PTI and then it vent viral.

This test today itself was of 1050 kms.

Similarly, ,they mess up meters and kms frequently. Defense reporting in both print and electronic media is still quite shabby.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

sis??

Isn't Levina a she???

 

[RKO]

Best of luck for doing what Pakistan did more than a decade ago!



Backward, inferior indians.

Good luck launching a satellite on your own in the next decade(Atleast)... what India did more than 4 decades ago!!!!
Best of luck!!! superior Pakistanis

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Typo? It's video report.

Then its not a 'Typo' but a 'Speako'....
'Cos all the reports are talking of tree-top height and NOE etc. etc. Have'nt seen any trees 12-15 KM high yet; have you?

 

[RKO]

Isn't Levina a she???

I dnt knw... i thought levina is a dude!!! damn!

 

[The_Sidewinder]

I dnt knw... i thought levina is a dude!!! damn!

lol. Maybe Levina should clarify