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India developing sub-sonic 1,000-km cruise missile

Bangalore, April 11
India was developing a sub-sonic 1,000-km range cruise missile “Nirbhay” which could be used for a “variety of applications”, a top military scientist said today. The 1000-kg “missile is getting into some shape”, Dr VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said.

He also said the flight-trial of air-to-air missile “Astra”, having a range of 45 to 100 km, was on the cards. Saraswat was delivering the keynote address at a national convention on “The frontiers of aeronautical technologies”, organised by the Aeronautical Society of India here.

He said India’s armed forces were looking for long-duration loitering missiles that could enter “enemy territory”, search targets such as radars, concentration of assets and “a variety of movements of enemy”, “home-on” the targets and “bang” them. “We need to develop loitering missiles”, he said. — PTI