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Babur Land Attack Cruise Missile System

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

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