Pakistan yesterday, conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) Ra’ad, according to an ISPR report.
With a range of 350 kilometres, the Ra’ad missile helps Pakistan enable ‘strategic standoff’ capability both on land and at sea, in the event of an all out war.
The state of the art Ra’ad cruise missile was built with “Cruise Technology” which has been developed by only a few countries in the world and gives the missile stealth capabilities.
The low altitude missile has high maneuverability capabilities and can deliver nuclear and conventional warheads with pin-point accuracy.
Director General Strategic Plans Division, Lieutenant General Zubair Mahmood Hayat congratulated the scientists and engineers on this achievement and termed the milestone as a major step towards strengthening Pakistan’s full spectrum credible minimum deterrence capability.
The successful launch has been commended by the President and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who have congratulated the scientists and engineers on their outstanding achievement.
