Nirbhay’s maiden launch tomorrow

[bloo]

Nirbhay’s maiden launch tomorrow

India’s first subsonic missile all set to be tested for its full range of 1000 km

Country’s first subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay (Fearless) is all set to be tested for its full range of 1,000 km on Tuesday from Chandipur, Odisha.

BrahMos is the country’s supersonic cruise missile.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) technologists said on Sunday preparations were in full swing for the launch of the two-stage surface-to-surface missile that uses a turbo-jet engine. The Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a DRDO facility in Bangalore, has designed Nirbhay — a derivative of pilotless target aircraft Lakshya. The Research Centre, Imarat, Hyderabad, has developed Nirbhay’s crucial avionics while other DRDO laboratories have played their part in developing it.

Nirbhay, which looks like an aircraft, can drop bombs. It can be remotely controlled and brought back. In this mission, there are no plans to recover it or use it to drop bombs.

Nirbhay takes off from a road mobile launcher after a booster engine kicks the first stage. After the booster separates, the second stage, which has a turbo-jet engine, cruises at an altitude of 500 metres to one km. It will travel for a long time at a speed of 0.67 Mach. Aviation kerosene is the fuel.

“It will cruise in the atmosphere like an aircraft and it is capable of travelling up to 1,000 km,” said a DRDO missile engineer. “The biggest advantage with Nirbhay is that it can be launched from land, air and sea. It is a potent system,” he noted.

Nirbhay can fly over or around hills. It can fly at a very low altitude and avoid detection. Hence it is called a “tree-top” missile. It is a “loitering missile.” It can go around and around a target till it gets an opportune moment to bomb it. The U.S. equivalent of Nirbhay is Tomahawk. Pakistan has a cruise missile called Babur that has a range of 700 km.

A DRDO official said Nirbhay was on a par with the best systems of its class. It was a third variant of India’s missiles, the others being the Agni series and the underwater-launched K-15/B05 missile. Nirbhay has latest navigation and guidance technologies, which were better than Pakistan’s cruise missile, he added.

 

[S-DUCT]

Hmm...
Its looks Nirbhay would be a low altitude bomber.

 

[BDforever]

congrats to India, Hindi and Bangla words have many similarities.
Nirbhay (Hindi)= Nirbhoy (Bangla) = Fearless

 

[1ndy]

Hmm...
Its looks Nirbhay would be a low altitude bomber.

Unmanned Low Altitude Bomber

 

[bloo]

Nirbhay

 

[1ndy]

And its max range will not be more 500km in return to launch mode.

 

[Badbadman]

Well I heard brahmos is similar to tomahawk now nirbhay is similar to tomahawk. How many missiles we gonna make similar to that. Tomahawk was invented like 100 years ago.

 

[bigzgvr4]

Well I heard brahmos is similar to tomahawk now nirbhay is similar to tomahawk. How many missiles we gonna make similar to that. Tomahawk was invented like 100 years ago.

Brahmos is not similar its a Hypersonic cruise and Nirbhay is subsonic similar to tomahawk in speed only rest of it is every thing is very advance guidance and pinpoint accuracy with enhanced stealth feature of evading radar detection and i think it can only be used on land and sea based platforms why brahmos is land air and sea

"thank you come again"

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Goooooooood luck.

 

[Badbadman]

Brahmos is not similar its a Hypersonic cruise and Nirbhay is subsonic similar to tomahawk in speed only rest of it is every thing is very advance guidance and pinpoint accuracy with enhanced stealth feature of evading radar detection and i think it can only be used on land and sea based platforms why brahmos is land air and sea

"thank you come again"

Then why develop whole another missile. Put this accuracy, stealth in one hypersonic missile and produce in huge numbers. Low cost, less infrastructure.

 

[bigzgvr4]

Then why develop whole another missile. Put this accuracy, stealth in one hypersonic missile and produce in huge numbers. Low cost, low infrastructure, low cost.

Brahmous is very expensive and it is also stealthy and pin point but its cost is UP their so Nirbhay is a cheap price Alternative i guess

"thank you come again"

 

[acetophenol]

I think never before they were cruel to us this extent that,not even a single real picture has been published.

 

[1ndy]

Brahmos is not similar its a Hypersonic cruise and Nirbhay is subsonic similar to tomahawk in speed only rest of it is every thing is very advance guidance and pinpoint accuracy with enhanced stealth feature of evading radar detection and i think it can only be used on land and sea based platforms why brahmos is land air and sea

"thank you come again"

There is nothing like stealth in cruise missiles, such cruise missiles fly below the enemy radar hence difficult to detect but with the radars(awacs, aerostates) in the sky looking toward ground you can easily detect and counter these low flying missiles.

 

[bigzgvr4]

There is nothing like stealth in cruise missiles, such cruise missiles fly below the enemy radar hence difficult to detect but with the radars(awacs, aerostates) in the sky looking toward ground you can easily detect and counter these low flying missiles.

ANd how would you know i am guessing you have worked in Awacs and operated the radar their and the Army Detected the cruise missile launch or some thing is that a personal opinion or a factual one

"thank you come again"

 

[1ndy]

ANd how would you know i am guessing you have worked in Awacs and operated the radar their and the Army Detected the cruise missile launch or some thing is that a personal opinion or a factual one

"thank you come again"

its a known fact brother.