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Babur Land Attack Cruise Missile System

ابرب رکوز زیمالئ اظنم

Babur, named after the first Mughal Emperor Zahir ud-Din Babur, is also

designated Hatf -VII, is the first transportable, Land Attack Cruise Missile

(LACM) to be developed by Pakistan. Launched from ground-based multi tube

transporter erector launchers, warships and submarines, the Babur can be

armed with a conventional or nuclear warhead and has a range of 700 km.

The missile is designed with stealth features, to avoid radar detection and to

penetrate enemy air defenses, in order to destroy high value targets with

impressive accuracy.

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TYPE

• Subsonic Land Attack Cruise Missile

ORIGIN

• Pakistan

ACTIVE SINCE

• 2005

OPERATOR

• Pakistan Army

MANUFACTURER

• National Defense Complex ( NDC )

WEIGHT

• < 1500 Kg

PAYLOAD

• > 300 Kg

LENGTH

• 7 meters with the rocket booster

STATUS

• Operational

DIAMETER

• 0.52m

WARHEAD

• Conventional/Nuclear

ENGINE

• Turbofan with a rocket booster motor for vertical launch

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WINGSPAN

• 2.6m

PROPELLANT

• Solid fuel rocket booster and liquid fuel for the Jet engine

OPERATIONAL RANGE

• 700km. An extended 1000km range variant is under development

SPEED

• 880km/hr - Mach 0.8

GUIDENCE SYSTEM

• Internal Guidence System, Terrain Contour Matching, Digital Scene-Mapping Area Correlator, GPS, COMPASS, GLONASS

LAUNCH PLATFORM

• Multi Tube Transport Erector Launcher, Submarine