DRDO to test subsonic ‘Nirbhay’ cruise missile early 2012
17 Nov 2011
New Delhi: India will test its indigenously developed high sub-sonic Nirbhay cruise missile in early 2012, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Dr VK Saraswat said Wednesday.
At a press conference here, Dr Saraswat confirmed that the Nirbhay was undergoing final integration of systems.
"It is going through the final integration stage now. We will test the missile early next year," he said.
Nirbhay will be the second cruise missile in India's missile inventory with the tri-sonic BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, developed jointly with Russia, already inducted for operational service.
BrahMos can attain cruise speeds of up to 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound. Nirbhay, being a subsonic cruise missile, attains speeds of 0.7 Mach.
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