India is likely to make firing test with the locally made cruise missile Nirbhay next month 0703123

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 11:46 AM
 
India is likely to make firing test with the locally made cruise missile Nirbhay next month.
India is likely to testfire its indigenously developed new sub-sonic cruise missile Nirbhay next month, sources said Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
     

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"The Defense Research and Development Organization has made the missile which can travel at a sub-sonic speed that is less than the speed of sound. It will be testfired in April," the sources said.

Nirbhay, India's equivalent of America's long-range Tomahawk. The Nirbhay is a long range, subsonic cruise missile being developed in India. The missile will have a range of 1,000 km and will arm three services, the Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force.[

Nirbhay will be a terrain hugging, stealthy missile capable of delivering 24 different types of warheads depending on mission requirements and will use an inertial navigation system for guidance.

"It will supplement Indo-Russian made BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the sense that it would enable delivery of warheads farther than the 300 km range of BrahMos," the sources added.