BrahMos supersonic cruise missile successfully test fired from INS Chennai, will ensure warship’s invincibility

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile successfully test fired from INS Chennai, will ensure warship’s invincibility



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NEW DELHI: India successfully test-fired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy‘s stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Sunday.
The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy after performing high-level and extremely complex manoeuvres.
BrahMos as ‘prime strike weapon’ will ensure the warship’s invincibility by engaging naval surface targets at long ranges, thus making the destroyer another lethal platform of Indian Navy.

Last month, India tested the extended range version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a land-based mobile launcher.
The original 290-km range BrahMos has already been deployed in Ladakh as well as Arunachal Pradesh during the ongoing military confrontation with China.
The armed forces have already inducted the 290-km range land and warship-based versions of the BrahMos missiles, which fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8, over the last decade.
A sleeker version of air-breathing missile was also test-fired from Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets last year. These air-to-ground BrahMos missiles can conceivably be used for pinpoint strikes on terror camps located deep inside enemy territory, or to take out underground nuclear bunkers, command-and-control centres and other high-value military targets like aircraft carriers on the high seas, from long stand-off distances.
With India joining the 34-nation Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in June 2016, which “removed the caps” on the range of the missile developed jointly with Russia, the range of the missile has been extended to 450-km. The MTCR basically prevents the proliferation of missiles and drones over the range of 300-km.
(With agency inputs)


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