India to secure North-East with Pralay and Nirbhay missiles

New Delhi: The Union Government has decided to secure North-East with Pralay and Nirbhay missiles. 

As per media reports, given India's vulnerability on the Siliguri corridor and the largely ceremonial military force of Bhutan, the Indian national security planners have decided to secure North-East states with conventionally armed short-range ballistic missiles like Pralay with a max range of 500 kilometres and conventionally armed subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay with a max range of 1500 kilometres.

India also has other conventionally armed delivery platforms.

Quoting official sources, reports have claimed that the Indian armed forces are prepared to place orders for two more Pralay ballistic missiles, at a cost of more than Rs 7,500 crore, in a significant step towards building a powerful rocket force to counter the danger from the northern borders.

This step was taken after the Defence Ministry approved one unit of these missiles for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in December 2022.

Officials said, Two more units of the Pralay ballistic missiles are going to be acquired for the defence forces, which are on their way towards creating a Rocket force including assets of all three forces.

The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile 'Pralay' has a range of 150-500 kilometre and can be launched from a mobile launcher. The missile guidance system includes state-of-the-art navigation system and integrated avionics.

Nirbhay is a Long Range Sub-Sonic Cruise Missile capable of deep penetration into adversary territory to strike high value targets with precision. Presently, Nirbhay is launched from a mobile articulated launcher. This Missile is being adopted for launch from sea and air platforms.  India is in the list of select few countries having capability to design and develop this class of cruise missiles.

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