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Pakistan test-fires new missile Hatf-8

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday test fired Hatf-8, a new air-launched cruise missile that the military said was designed to provide Pakistan’s air platforms with a “strategic stand off capacity” on land and at sea.

According to a military statement, the test of the indigenously developed low-flying stealth design missile, also named Ra’ad, meaning thunder in Arabic, was successful.

The missile has a range of 350 km, can carry “all types of warheads” and its accuracy is comparable to the recently tested Babur cruise missile, the military said.

President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz sent congratulatory messages to the scientists and engineers involved in developing the missile.

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