India’s first indigenously designed and developed the long-range sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ from a test range Chandipur, Odisha state.
About the Nirbhay Missile
Nirbhay missile has blended missile and aeronautical technologies which allows it to take off vertically like the missile and cruise horizontally like an aircraft.
This missile has a two-stage missile powered by solid rocket motor booster developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL).
Nirbhay Missile has an operational range of 1000 km & can carry warheads of up to 300 kg including the nuclear warheads.
It can be launched from various kind of platforms.
It can travel with the turbofan or turbojet engine and is guided by the highly advanced inertial navigation system.
It has the capability to loiter and cruise at 0.7 Mach, at altitudes as low as 100m.
It is terrain hugging missile which keeps on encircling the area of its target for several minutes and then hits bull’s eye’ on an opportune time.
It is difficult to detect by the enemy’s radars. It is capable to engage several targets in the single flight.
The guidance, control and navigation system of missile is configured around indigenously designed that is Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) and MEMS-based Inertial Navigation System (INS) along with the GPS system.
It was the sixth experimental test of Nirbhay missile system and it achieved all mission objectives right from lift-off till the final splash, boosting the confidence of all the scientists associated with this trial.
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