Pakistan on Monday said it had successfully test-fired an indigenously
developed multi-tube cruise missile that can carry both nuclear and
conventional warheads over a range of 700 km. According to the Inter
Services Public Relations, the Babur (Hatf-VII) cruise missile can
strike targets on land and at sea with “pinpoint accuracy”.
Armed with stealth features, Babur is low-flying and terrain-hugging. It
is equipped with modern cruise missile technology of Terrain Contour
Matching and Digital Scene Matching and Area Co-relation. It was
launched from a Multi Tube Missile Launch Vehicle in the presence of the
senior hierarchy of the Strategic Plans Division.
In Monday’s test, the National Command Authority’s fully automated
Strategic Command and Control Support System was employed. It enables
robust command and control capability of all strategic assets with round
the clock situational awareness in a digitised network-centric
environment to decision makers at National Command Centre (NCC), a
statement put out by ISPR said. “The system has the added capability of
real time remote monitoring of missile flight path”, it added.
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