{"id":4770,"date":"2017-01-10T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2017-01-10T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:02:15","slug":"pakistan-launches-its-first-submarine-based-nuclear-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-launches-its-first-submarine-based-nuclear-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan launches its first submarine-based nuclear cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s new Submarine Launched Cruise Missile has sea-skimming and terrain-hugging flight characteristics <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani military has successfully launched its first submarine-launched cruise missile that has nuclear payload capability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nuclear-capable Babur-3 missile has a range of 450km.\u00a0It was fired from an underwater, mobile platform and hit its target with precise accuracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pakistan Armed Forces conducted on Monday the first successful launch of the Babur-3 cruise missile from a submarine in the Indian Ocean, the press service of Pakistan&#8217;s Armed Forces said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Pakistan conducted its first successful test fire of\u00a0Submarine Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) Babur-3 having a range of\u00a0450 kilometers [some 280 miles], from\u00a0an undisclosed location in\u00a0the Indian Ocean. The missile was fired from\u00a0an underwater, mobile platform and hit its target with\u00a0precise accuracy,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPakistan eyes this hallmark development as a step toward reinforcing the policy of credible minimum deterrence,\u201d said a statement issued by the military.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly-launched missile has been built with state-of-the-art technology, including underwater-controlled propulsion and advanced guidance and navigation features, augmented by global navigation and terrain and scene matching systems, according to Radio Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cruise missile has sea-skimming and terrain-hugging flight characteristics to evade radar detection and interception \u2014 especially with regard to future regional missile defense capabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\u2019s Major General Asif Ghafoor posted a video of the launch on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash\">#Pakistan<\/a> successfully test fired first Submarine launched Cruise Missile Babur-3. Rg 450 Km. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COAS?src=hash\">#COAS<\/a> congrats Nation and the team involved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRNei5oF65\">pic.twitter.com\/YRNei5oF65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/818427713627295745\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babur-III is a sea-based variant of ground-launched cruise missile Babur-II, which was successfully tested earlier in December last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s new Submarine Launched Cruise Missile has sea-skimming and terrain-hugging flight characteristics Pakistani military has successfully launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,6,5,31,8,287],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-defense","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-pakistan","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pakistan-submarine-cruisemissile-babur3.jpg?fit=650%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}