Pralay Missiles
About
- The Pralay missile is an indigenously developed short-range, surface-to-surface weapon with a payload capacity ranging from 500 to 1,000 kg.
- It is capable of carrying multiple types of warheads against various targets at ranges of up to 500 km.
- Pralay is equipped with a solid propellant rocket motor and incorporates state-of-the-art guidance and navigation to ensure high precision.
- The Pralay missile’s lethal edge lies in its quasi-ballistic nature.
- Unlike traditional ballistic missiles that follow a high-arching, predictable path governed largely by gravity after the boost phase, Pralay travels on a flatter, depressed trajectory.
- This lower flight profile reduces the time it remains visible to radar systems, giving enemy defences a much shorter window to detect, track, and intercept it.
- The missile, which is meant for the Army and Air Force, will be the first ballistic missile in India’s missile arsenal meant for conventional (non-nuclear) strikes.
- It fills a critical gap in India’s missile arsenal between long-range strategic systems like the Agni series and short-range battlefield weapons such as Pinaka rockets.
