Pakistan successfully test fires Multi Tube Missile Hatf IX (NASR)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tuesday successfully conducted the test fire of indigenous developed Short Range Surface to Surface Multi Tube Missile Hatf IX (NASR).
NASR, with a range of 60 km, can carry nuclear warheads of appropriate yield, with high accuracy, and possesses shoot and scoot attributes.
This quick response system addresses the need to deter evolving threats, specially at shorter ranges.
According to ISPR here, the test was witnessed by Director General Strategic Plans Division Lieutenant General Khalid Ahmed Kidwai ®, Chairman NESCOM Irfan Burney, Commander Army Strategic Forces Command, Lieutenant General Tariq Nadeem Gilani, Senior Officers from the Strategic forces and scientists and engineers of strategic organizations.
Director General Strategic Plans Division, Lieutenant General Khalid Ahmed Kidwai ®, terming the NASR Missile as a weapon of peace, said that the test was a major development which will consolidate Pakistan’s deterrence capability at all levels of the threat spectrum, thereby ensuring peace in the region.
The successful test has also been warmly appreciated by the President, Prime Minister and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, who have congratulated the scientists and engineers on their outstanding success.
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