Pakistan's answer to India's BrahMos

FIRE POWER: Pakistani Babur missile is highly manoeuverable with pinpoint accuracy.

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New Delhi: Bringing many Indian cities within its reach, Pakistan on Thursday successfully test-fired a nuclear capable cruise missile, which can avoid radar detection and has a range of 700 km.

"The Hatf-VII missile, which is also called the Babur, has a range of 700 km and can carry various warheads including nuclear," as quoted by PTI, a Pakistan military statement in Islamabad said.

"The Babur is a terrain hugging, radar avoiding cruise missile, whose range has now been enhanced to 700 km," it said.

Flaunted by Pakistan's military as the answer to the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos, the Babur was first tested in 2005 with a range of 500 km.

The test at that time took the world by surprise and analysts later said that the prototype of Pakistan's terrain hugging radar-avoiding cruise missile closely resembled the Chinese version of the same.

The military statement said the missile was indigenously developed and its range has been enhanced to 700 km.

Named after the Mughal emperor, the Babur missile has a longer range and nuclear capability compared to BrahMos, Pakistan military officials claim.

But at the same time Babur was not supersonic like the Indo-Russian missile, which has range of 300 km.

Babur is highly manoeuverable with pinpoint accuracy.

"It is capable of carrying a variety of warheads including nuclear," the statement claimed.

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