India successfully test fires indigenous subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay off Odisha coast

India successfully test fires indigenous subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay off Odisha coast

• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired the subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ on June 24, 2021, from an Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha’s Balasore.
• This was the eighth test flight of the missile. The first test flight of Nirbhay was held on 12 March 2013.
• Nirbhay is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile indigenously designed and developed by DRDO.
• The missile can be launched from multiple platforms and is capable of carrying conventional and nuclear warheads.
• Nirbhay is a two-stage missile, and can engage several targets in a single flight.
• The missile has a length of 6 metres, width of 0.52 metres, a wing span of 2.7 metres and weighs about 1500 kg.
• It has a strike range of about 1500 km.

Source: UNI