The Army Rocket Force Command on 14th May successfully tested the ground-launched indigenously-developed Fatah-IV cruise missile, said the Army’s media affairs branch.

The weapon system was “fit with advanced avionics and state-of-the-art navigational aids” and “capable of engaging long-range targets with high precision”, the statement of Inter-Services Public Relations said.

It said that the training fire was aimed at improving the operational efficiency of the troops and testing technical parameters of different sub-systems being used to increase their accuracy and survivability.

During the training firing, senior officers of the Pakistan Army Rocket Force Command along with scientists and engineers of the missile development agency were present, the statement said.

The President, Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu praised the “successful training fire of Fatah-IV and expressed appreciation for the technical excellence, commitment and dedication of all those involved in the successful training fire of the F-series missile”.

The Ministry of Interior later issued a statement stating that Mohsin Naqvi, the ministry’s minister, congratulated the nation on the success of the “Fatah-IV” ground-launched cruise missile training test, which was developed by the country.

The successful test is a “commendable achievement” of the Army Rocket Force Command scientists and engineers and is an “important advancement” in the defence sector,” the statement said.

It went on to quote Naqvi as saying: “I congratulate the scientists and engineers. I am proud of the scientists and engineers. Pakistan’s defence is impregnable.”

The test firing of the missile was the “next important step to enhance the nation’s strategic deterrence and its indigenous defence production capabilities”, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.

The development has been made just less than three weeks after the Army Rocket Force Command successfully completed the training exercise with the indigenously developed missile system ‘Fateh-II’.

The Pakistan Army had also successfully fired its cruise missile Fatah-IV in September, 2025, at a range of 750 kilometres.